ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,129, issued on March 4, was assigned to Quartus Engineering Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and systems of generating camera models for camera calibration" was invented by Jesse Melrose (San Diego), Matthew Pearson (San Diego), Jordan Liss (San Diego), Julia Wetherill (San Diego) and Brian Dunne (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of generating a camera model are provided. A robotic assembly is used to move a calibration assembly relative to a camera assembly through a series of poses. The calibration assembly comprises a calibration target and markers. The camera assembly comprises a mount, a camera having a field of view, ...