ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,763, issued on June 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Aggregating features from multiple images to generate historical data for a camera" was invented by Paul Lee (Redmond, Wash.), Michael Bleyer (Seattle) and Christian Markus Maekelae (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating an aggregated set of features from multiple images generated by a camera are disclosed. A first image generated by the camera is accessed, where the first image was generated at a first time. A first set of features are identified from within the first image. A second image generated by the ...