ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,556, issued on June 24, was assigned to Compound Eye Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"System and method for correspondence map determination" was invented by Jason Devitt (Redwood City, Calif.), Haoyang Wang (Redwood City, Calif.) and Konstantin Azarov (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining a correspondence map between a first and second image by determining a set of correspondence vectors for each pixel in the first image and selecting a correspondence vector from the set of correspondence vectors based on a cost value."

The patent was filed on March 6, 2023, under Application No. 18/1...