ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,716, issued on May 20, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Methods and systems for calibrating a camera array based on differentiable point targets in a capture scene" was invented by Tom Hsi Hao Shang (Forest Hills, N.Y.) and Elena Dotsenko (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative camera calibration system may identify a first configuration of a set of differentiable point targets as depicted in a first image of a scene and a second configuration of the set of differentiable point targets as depicted in a second image of the scene. The differentiable point targets may each...