ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,178, issued on March 3, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Image stitching in the presence of a full field of view reference image" was invented by Paz Ilan (Tel Aviv, Israel), Shai Vaisman (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ruthy Katz (Tel Aviv, Israel), Adi Teitel (Tel Aviv, Israel), Hagai Tzafrir (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gal Shabtay (Tel Aviv, Israel), Oded Gigushinski (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Itamar Azoulai (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for obtaining a seamless, high resolution, large field of view image comprise capturing a plurality of Tele images in a scene using a scanning Tele camera, ea...