ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,197, issued on March 17, was assigned to NAGRAVISION SARL (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Extended scene view" was invented by Bertrand Wendling (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides methods and content consumption devices that enable a scene, for example a 360deg scene, that is larger (i.e. has more pixels in at least one dimension) than a display format of the content consumption device to be displayed. Constituent scene views are received individually by the content consumption device, for example as broadcasts, and are combined, for example stitched together, at the con...