ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,106, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Bandwidth-adaptive light field video transmission on mobile and portable devices" was invented by Dhananjay Lal (Englewood, Colo.) and Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for bandwidth-adaptive light field video transmission on mobile and portable devices is disclosed. An upstream bandwidth is estimated. A request for a service tier for capture and transmission of light field content is received, wherein the light field content comprises an image array of a plurality of sub-aperture images. When the requested service...