ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,903, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Global motion modeling for automotive image data" was invented by Louis Joseph Kerofsky (San Diego), Geert Van Der Auwera (San Diego), Marta Karczewicz (San Diego), Kuan-Ting Shen (National City, Calif.), Dangdang Shao (Fremont, Calif.), Khalid Tahboub (San Diego) and Bing Han (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for global motion modeling. Embodiments include receiving a first image and a second image from a camera attached to a moving object. Embodiments include identifying a pixel in the first image....