ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,951, issued on July 7, was assigned to Nevermind Capital LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatus for receiving and/or playing back content" was invented by David Cole (Laguna Beach, Calif.), Alan McKay Moss (Laguna Beach, Calif.) and Hector M. Medina (Laguna Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for streaming or playing back stereoscopic content are described. Camera dependent correction information is communicated to a playback device and applied in the playback device to compensate for distortions introduced by the lenses of individual cameras. By performing lens dependent distortion compensation ...