ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,130, issued on March 3, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Real-time blind registration of disparate video image streams" was invented by Mark Gehrke (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and David Hiskens (Ypsilanti, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first image of a scene captured by a first camera is received. The first image is resized to have an instantaneous field of view (IFoV) corresponding to the IFoV of a second image of the scene captured by a second camera. A distortion-corrected resized first image is constructed. A resampled distortion-corrected, resized first image is constructed to provide a resampled,...