ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,579, issued on March 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Spatial video capture and replay" was invented by Timothy R. Pease (Emerald Hills, Calif.), Alexandre Da Veiga (San Francisco), Benjamin H. Boesel (Sunnyvale, Calif.), David H. Huang (San Mateo, Calif.), Jonathan Perron (Felton, Calif.), Shih-Sang Chiu (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Spencer H. Ray (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that create a 3D video that includes determining first adjustments (e.g., first transforms) to video frames (e.g., one or more RGB images and dep...