US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF EXETER on May 27 for "Latent print extraction apparatus and method" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,289, issued on May 27, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (Exeter, Great Britain).

"Latent print extraction apparatus and method" was invented by Matthew McGuigan (Exeter, Great Britain) and Jacqueline Christmas (Exeter, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A latent print extraction apparatus is described. An input receives an image of light reflected from a curved surface. A comparison unit compares a shape of the reflected light in the image to an expected shape of light reflected from a flat surface and thereby determines an estimated curvature for the curved surface. A correction unit corrects curvature distortions of a...