ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,033, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Product Development Associates Inc. (Burnsville, Minn.).

"Three dimensional image generation using a cloud of cameras" was invented by Bradley Vernon Briercliffe (Hastings, Minn.) and Steven Trellis (Hopkins, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a receiver configured to receive a spectrum of data feeds, each data feed received from a camera of a plurality of disparate cameras disposed in a common region. A storage device includes a plurality of frames. A controller is configured to extract image data from each data feed of the plurality of data feeds, each data feed including ...