ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,825, issued on May 27, was assigned to Circle Optics Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Lens design for low parallax panoramic camera systems" was invented by Andrew F. Kurtz (Macedon, N.Y.), John Bowron (Burlington, Canada), Allen Krisiloff (Rochester, N.Y.), Zakariya Niazi (Rochester, N.Y.) and Jose Manuel Sasian-Alvarado (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens form for a low parallax imaging device includes a plurality of imaging lens elements arranged to capture adjacent fields of view. The imaging lens elements include a plurality of lens element groups for directing incident light to an imaging plane. The lens elements contr...