ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,020, issued on March 31.

"Single 2D image capture system, processing and display of 3D digital image" was invented by Jerry Nims (Sandy Springs, Ga.), William M. Karszes (Hilton Head, S.C.) and Samuel Pol (Lawrenceville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to capture a two dimensional digital source image of a scene by a user, including a smart device having a memory device for storing an instruction, a processor in communication with the memory and configured to execute the instruction, a digital image capture device in communication with the processor, said processor configured to capture a first two dimensional digital so...