ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,009, issued on June 3, was assigned to Pinterest Inc. (San Francisco).
"Extracted image segments collage" was invented by David Temple (Mill Valley, Calif.), Ryan Wilson Probasco (San Leandro, Calif.), Albert Pereta Farre (San Francisco), Steven Ramkumar (San Francisco), Rohan Mahadev (New York), Luke Zhao (Irvine, Calif.), Dmitry Olegovich Kislyuk (San Ramon, Calif.) and David Ding-Jia Xue (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems and methods to extract image segments from an image and include those extracted image segments in a collage. The origin information, such as the source image, source image location...