ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,863, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Obtaining camera device image data representing an event" was invented by Lee A. Carbonell (Flower Mound, Texas), Tsz Shing Cheng (Grand Prairie, Texas), Jeffrey Lynn Edgington (Fort Worth, Texas) and Pandian Mariadoss (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented and can include for instance: determining a location of interest; and obtaining image data from one or more camera device about the location of interest."

The patent was filed on Feb. 24, 2023, under Application No. 18/17...