ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,677, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Apparatuses, computer program products, and computer-implemented methods for hardware-accelerated video stream synthesizing" was invented by James Nicastri (Wentworth Point, Australia) and Mark Flannery (Turramurra, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure efficiently create a single video stream from a plurality of individual video streams. The single video stream may embody a grid-based presentation of the individual video streams, without requiring separate objects for each stream. Such embodiments utilize...