ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,157, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).

"Device, system, and method to provide front-facing camera images identified using a scene image assembled from rear-facing camera images" was invented by John Kim (Urbana, Ill.), Duane Groves (Champaign, Ill.), Sruti Kamarajugadda (Bloomington, Ill.) and Craig A. Ibbotson (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, system, and method to provide front-facing camera images identified using a scene image assembled from rear-facing camera images is provided. A device retrieves dual-sensor camera images having respective metadata indicating image acquis...