ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,919, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image-filtering interface" was invented by Megan Rowe (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ye Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kushal Kardam Vyas (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jihee Kim (Mountain View, Calif.), Imran Mohammed (San Jose, Calif.), Thomas Brenner (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hanna Fuhrmann (San Francisco) and Sajid Sadi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes accessing an initial image and applying each image filter from a set of one or more N image filters to the initial image to create N filtered images. The method f...