ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,967, issued on July 22, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Distributed image signal processor (ISP) system for a head-mounted device" was invented by Zhenqiang Ying (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hao Xie (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sung Ho Hong (San Jose, Calif.), Yazhu Ling (San Jose, Calif.), Jiangtao Kuang (San Jose, Calif.) and Yuh-Lin Eugene Chang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed image signal processing (ISP) system for a head-mounted device reduces the power load on the battery of the head-mounted device. The distributed ISP system includes a Bayer image processing engine, an RGB ...