ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,970, issued on March 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and system for providing at least one image captured by a scene camera of a vehicle" was invented by Lejing Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Thomas Alt (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method of providing at least one image of at least one real object captured by at least one scene camera of a plurality of scene cameras mounted on a vehicle. The method includes: providing camera poses of respective scene cameras of the plurality of scene cameras relative to a reference coordinate system associated with the v...