ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,996, issued on April 1, was assigned to Olive Seed Industries LLC (Woodinville, Wash.).

"Methods and systems for personalizing visitor experience at a non-profit venue using high-resolution composite photography" was invented by Christine Soule (Woodinville, Wash.), Charles H. Cella (Pembroke, Mass.) and Richard Spitz (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for augmenting a photograph taken by a visitor at a non-profit venue, comprising: executing an application on a mobile computing device carried by the visitor, which, when executed, performs the steps of: analyzing an original photograph taken by a visitor to a...