ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,971, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Methods and systems for synchronizing image frames captured by a camera array" was invented by Igor Gomon (Budd Lake, N.J.) and Vidhya Seran (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first capture engine application may synchronize a first clock to a global time domain to which a second clock used by a second capture engine application is also synchronized. The first capture engine application may receive a first image frame having a camera timestamp indicating a capture time of the first image frame with respect to a camera time dom...