ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,027, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to EarthCam Inc. (Upper Saddle River, N.J.).

"Processes to create a docu-narrative, including evidentiary quality images and evidentiary objects within the images, and an image chain of custody, with multi-level authentication and certification" was invented by Juan Navas (Fair Lawn, N.J.) and Brian Cury (Alpine, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a visual record, referred to as a docu-narrative, of events at a location. The record comprises still and video images that are acquired by appropriately configured hardware. A benchmark focus and resolution are determined for an ...