ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,220, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Hand Held Products Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for comprehensive focusing in imaging environments" was invented by Tao Xian (Mt. Laurel, N.J.), Eric Alfons Youngblood (Matthews, N.C.), Timothy Good (Indian Land, S.C.), Jeffrey Harper (Charlotte, N.C.), David Matthew Wilz (Sewell, N.J.), Manjul Bizoara (Charlotte, N.C.), Erik Van Horn (Seaville, N.J.), Ka Au (Charlotte, N.C.), Shankar Ban (Fort Mill, S.C.) and Thomas Haggerty (Haddon Township, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure include methods, computer program produ...