ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,723, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to VIAVI Solutions Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Panoramic image capture for multispectral sensor" was invented by Steven Saxe (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and William D. Houck (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture device may include a first spectral filter and a second spectral filter arranged so that a panoramic image capture operation captures light filtered by the first spectral filter and light filtered by the second spectral filter in a same region of a combined image and one or more processors to: capture a plurality of images based on the panoramic image capture operatio...