ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,853, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"See-through operator awareness tool using synthesized viewpoints" was invented by Steven Chapman (Burbank, Calif.), Mark Arana (Burbank, Calif.), Michael Goslin (Burbank, Calif.), Joseph Popp (Burbank, Calif.) and Mehul Patel (Burbank, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is directed a method including capturing image data of a real-world environment at a first location and a second location different than the first location. The image data includes a plurality of intersecting image data points captured at both the first location and t...