ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,020, issued on April 8, was assigned to Geomagical Labs Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method and system for image generation" was invented by Kevin Wong (Mountain View, Calif.), Qiqin Dai (Mountain View, Calif.), Kaimo Lin (Mountain View, Calif.), Brian Totty (Mountain View, Calif.), Jianfeng Yin (Mountain View, Calif.), Yacine Alami (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael Bernardo (Mountain View, Calif.), Paul Gauthier (Mountain View, Calif.), Philip Guindi (Mountain View, Calif.), Qing Guo (Mountain View, Calif.), Luis Puig Morales (Mountain View, Calif.), Brian Pugh (Mountain View, Calif.), Konstantinos Nektarios Lianos (Mountain View, Calif.) and Angus Dorbie (Redwood City, Calif.)....