ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,406, issued on July 8, was assigned to Wrethink Inc. (Del Mar, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for determining the date of a scanned photo from face data and using such date information" was invented by James Gardner (Palm Springs, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for determining and/or using the image date, e.g., image capture date, of one or more scanned images based on image content is described. In various embodiments at least one object, e.g., face of a person, is identified in an image. The age of the object is determined, e.g., using age estimation techniques. The determined, e.g., estimated, age of t...