ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,349, issued on July 8, was assigned to Rewyndr LLC (Pittsburgh).

"Image management with region-based metadata indexing" was invented by Craig Waller (Sewickley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, from a device, a user identification; storing, in a storage device, first data produced by first free-form user input specifying one or more regions of an image and second data comprising second free-form user input describing the one or more regions of the image; each first data having corresponding second data stored in association therewith; selecting, using a processor, a data set com...