ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,244, issued on March 24, was assigned to SITEAWARE SYSTEMS LTD (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Composite image capture with two degrees of freedom camera capturing overlapping image frames" was invented by Ori Benjamin Aphek (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture system comprises: (a) a camera; (b) a camera mounting, configured to provide the camera with at least two angular degrees of freedom; (c) a mount base, configured to enable a base of the camera mounting to be stationary during performance of imaging; and (d) a movement controller, operatively coupled to the camera mounting and configured to repeatedly instr...