ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,885, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Optimizing storage of images at an electronic device by monitoring available storage and providing for multiple image-management modes, and systems and methods of use thereof" was invented by Juliana Park (Emerald Hills, Calif.), Mengnan Shen (Redwood City, Calif.), Sarjan Shrestha (Hayward, Calif.), Liang Xu (Mountain View, Calif.), Matthew Adam Carney (Lincoln, Calif.), Hamid Aghdaee (Berkeley, Calif.) and Sanjiban Kundu (Malden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optimizing storage of images at a wearable device includes ...