ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,701, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Adeia Imaging LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and methods for calibration of an array camera" was invented by Robert Mullis (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for calibrating an array camera are disclosed. Systems and methods for calibrating an array camera in accordance with embodiments of this invention include the capturing of an image of a test pattern with the array camera such that each imaging component in the array camera captures an image of the test pattern. The image of the test pattern captured by a reference imaging component is then used to deri...