ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,305, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Visionary Machines Pty Ltd (Hornsby, Australia).

"Systems and methods for generating and/or using 3-dimensional information with camera arrays" was invented by Samson Lee (Hornsby, Australia) and Rhys Andrew Newman (Hornsby, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to systems and/or methods that may be used for determining scene information (for example, 3D scene information) using data obtained at least in part from a camera array. Certain embodiments may be used to create scene measurements of depth (and the probability of accuracy of that depth) using an ar...