ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,818, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Vehicle surround view system and method thereof" was invented by Markus Friebe (Gefrees, Germany), Chetan Gotur (Bangalore, India), Pavan Nag Prabhakar (Bangalore, India) and Abhishek Ranjan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method and system for displaying surround view in a vehicle. A first image is captured at a first time instant and a second image is captured at a second time instant, from a camera mounted on the vehicle. The first image is different from the second image. ...