ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,642, issued on June 24, was assigned to Cista System Corp. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Image sensor with image receiver and automatic image switching" was invented by Zhaojian Li (Fremont, Calif.) and Jiangtao Pang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an image sensor with one or more image receivers for image switching, and an imaging system and method therefor. The image sensor includes an image sensor array to generate first image data for a first image; a receiver to receive, into the image sensor, second image data for a second image; an image selection circuit coupled to the image sensor array and th...