ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,753, issued on June 17, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Matching local image feature descriptors in image analysis" was invented by Ruan Lakemond (Cheltenham, Australia) and Timothy Smith (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of feature matching in images captured from camera viewpoints uses the epipolar geometry of the viewpoints to define a geometrically-constrained region in a second image corresponding to a first feature in a first image; comparing the local descriptor of the first feature with local descriptors of features in the second image to determine respective measur...