ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,124, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method for performing a rewind operation with a mobile image capture device" was invented by Donald A. Barnett (Monroe, Wash.), David Karam (Los Gatos, Calif.), Anton Vayvod (New York) and Aaron Michael Donsbach (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile image capture device is provided that can include an image capture system operable to capture image frames and be configured to: provide a live video stream for display in a viewfinder portion of a user interface that depicts at least a portion of a current field of view of the image capture...