ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,887, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Pramana Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Apparatus for and method of real-time global positioning of images" was invented by Tushar Singh (Bangalore, India), Raghubansh Bahadur Gupta (Bangalore, India) and Prasanth Perugupalli (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for real-time global positioning of images. The apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. The memory instructs the processor to acquire, using an image acquisition engine, sequential image fields of view comprising a plurality of slide images, de...