ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,141, issued on March 18.

"2D digital image capture system and simulating 3D digital image and sequence" was invented by Jerry Nims (Sandy Springs, Ga.), William M. Karszes (Hilton Head, S.C.) and Samuel Pol (Lawrenceville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to capture a plurality of two dimensional digital source images of scene by user, a smart device having a memory device for storing an instruction, a processor in communication with the memory and configured to execute the instruction, a plurality of digital image capture devices in communication with the processor and each image capture device configured to capture a di...