ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,122, issued on July 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for updating continuous image alignment of separate cameras" was invented by Michael Bleyer (Seattle), Christopher Douglas Edmonds (Carnation, Wash.), Dominik Alexander Konik (Kirkland, Wash.) and Raymond Kirk Price (Carnation, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for updating continuous image alignment of separate cameras identifies a previous alignment matrix associated with a previous frame pair captured at one or more previous timepoints by a reference camera and a match camera. The previous alignment matrix is...