US Patent Issued to Circle Optics on April 29 for "Multi-camera panoramic image capture devices with a faceted dome" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,465, issued on April 29, was assigned to Circle Optics Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Multi-camera panoramic image capture devices with a faceted dome" was invented by Andrew F. Kurtz (Macedon, N.Y.), Eugene Sisto (Rochester, N.Y.), Zakariya Niazi (Rochester, N.Y.), John Bowron (Burlington, Canada) and Thomas Bidwell (Bergen, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low parallax imaging device includes a dome defining an interior volume in which a plurality of imaging lens elements are disposed. The dome includes a first outer optical element associated with a first of the imaging lens elements and a second outer optical element associated wit...