ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,134, issued on March 31, was assigned to GN AUDIO A/S (Denmark).

"Cylindrical panorama hardware" was invented by Yashket Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A panoramic video camera comprises a plurality of image sensors which are configured to capture a plurality of frames at a time; an image processing circuitry configured to generate a frame read signal to read the plurality of frames generated by the plurality of camera sensors, apply a cylindrical mapping function to map the plurality of frames to a cylindrical image plane and stitch the cylindrically mapped plurality of frames together in the cylindrical ...