ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,669, issued on July 22, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Document image quality detection" was invented by Chao Wang (Shanghai), Ke Jin (Shanghai), Yunfeng Ma (Shanghai) and Wei Sun (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to automatically determining image quality for images of documents. In some embodiments, a computer system receives an image of a document captured at a user computing device. Using a neural network, the computer system analyzes the image to determine whether the image satisfies a quality threshold, where the analyzing includes determining whether one or more featu...