ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,068, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Method and system for maintaining alignment of point-of-view in pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras" was invented by Ramkumar A (Madurai, India), Ganesh Raja S K (Madurai, India), Muthu Kannan Muthuvel (Madurai, India) and Sivakumar Nagarajan (Madurai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a system and method for maintaining alignment of a point-of-view (POV) in a pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera. The method includes determining an initial orientation of the PTZ camera by obtaining position information of the camera, time synchronizati...