ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,275, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Camera calibration verification using hand imaging and product packaging" was invented by Narges Noori (Los Gatos, Calif.), Zhiheng Jia (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zhaowei Wang (Stittsville, Canada) and Dao Zhou (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are directed to identifying focus points of a body part of a user as alignment features for calibration verification. In some implementations, a body part of the user may be a hand, and the focus points are joints. A calibration verification involves, in some implementations, capturing an image of a ...