ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,221, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging apparatus" was invented by Masao Ozawa (Osaka, Japan) and Akira Seto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, a controller, and an output interface. The image sensor captures a subject image to generate imaging data. The controller performs repair processing to generate a moving image file by sequentially analyzing information used for reproduction of a moving image from a corrupted file, the moving image file being capable of reproducing the moving image indicated by th...