ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,691, issued on June 3, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Characterizing an undefined camera model of a computing device camera" was invented by Brian Daniel Shucker (Superior, Colo.), Jianxiang Fan (Boulder, Colo.) and Yan Mayster (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one example embodiment, a computing device can include a camera, one or more processors, and one or more computer-readable media that store instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to perform operations. The operations can include defining a camera model of the camera based at least...