ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,879, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HRB Innovations Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Electronic image comparison and materiality determination" was invented by Renjith Radhakrishna Pillai Suseelamma (Kollam, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, system, and media for comparing a set of images to determine the existence and location of any differences between the image set. The differences may be located using image comparison techniques such as SURF and Blob Detection, as well as through techniques used to identify areas of data sliding and match probabilities. A logical match probability, as well as a physical match probabili...