ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,626, issued on June 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Distortion correction for digital image sub-division" was invented by Yanwei Wang (Bellevue, Wash.), Pascal Pare (Bothell, Wash.), Christopher Douglas Edmonds (Carnation, Wash.), Mark Anthony Plagge (Sammamish, Wash.), Miguel Susffalich (Kirkland, Wash.) and Anuj Bharat Gosalia (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Digital image processing methods performed by a computer are disclosed. In one example, a digital image captured by a real camera having intrinsic and extrinsic parameters is received. One or more distortion correction ...