ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,246, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Pictometry International Corp. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Variable focal length multi-camera aerial imaging system and method" was invented by Frank Giuffrida (Honeoye Falls, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed including an imaging system comprising an image-capturing system having two or more image-capturing devices and positioned on a platform over a predefined target area at a first altitude above the Earth, the image-capturing devices configured to capture a set of images depicting contiguous, substantially contiguous, or partially overlapping geographic coverage su...