ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,319, issued on April 7, was assigned to OVH (Roubaix, France).

"Methods and systems for storing aerial images on a data storage device" was invented by Octave Klaba (Roubaix, France) and Miroslaw Piotr Klaba (Roubaix, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for storing a captured aerial image on a data storage device, the captured aerial image being associated with a corresponding metadata file. The method including accessing the captured aerial image and the corresponding metadata file, extracting a sequence of stored aerial images from a compressed file stored on the data storage device, the sequence of stored aeria...