ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,040, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cyclomedia Technology B.V. (Zaltbommel, Netherlands).

"Triggering system" was invented by Jose Herculano Lopes Barreto (Zaltbommel, Netherlands), Cornelis Alexander Elizabeth Van Sterkenburg (Zaltbommel, Netherlands) and Bart Johannes Beers (Zaltbommel, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a triggering system for triggering a plurality of vehicle-mounted cameras for obtaining a set of images. The present invention further relates to a camera system including the same. The triggering system includes a central unit and a plurality of camera controllers that each control one or mo...