ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,318, issued on March 3.

"Simultaneously capturing images in landscape and portrait modes" was invented by Donald Siu (Santa Ana, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video or image capture device and method of operation of the capture device are described. One example apparatus includes a first sensor array comprising a first plurality image sensors, a second sensor array comprising a second plurality image sensors; a third sensor array comprising a third plurality image sensors; a fourth sensor array comprising a fourth plurality image sensors and a fifth sensor array comprising a fifth plurality image sensors. The second sensor ar...