ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,739, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Image management method and apparatus" was invented by Yu Zhang (Xi'an, China) and Jianfeng Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image management method includes: receiving information about a signer and information about a target image that are sent by a first terminal device, where the signer is an object designated to sign the target image; obtaining a signature file based on the information about the signer and the information about the target image; and if a first digest that is of the target image and is returned by a container pla...