ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,801, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Systems and methods for obtaining a smart panoramic image" was invented by Avia Israeli (Tel Aviv, Israel), Nitzan Horovitz (Tel Aviv, Israel), Limor Battino (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yoav Kurtz (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Noy Cohen (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mobile handheld electronic devices such as smartphones, comprising a Wide camera for capturing Wide images with respective Wide fields of view (FOVW), a Tele camera for capturing Tele images with respective Tele fields of view (FOVT) smaller than FOVW, and a processor configured to stitch ...