ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,379, issued on April 7, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Methods and systems for processing image data" was invented by Vladimir Dolzhenko (London) and Maxim Novikov (Manchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for monitoring for a trigger event, where the trigger event is a determination that a user will issue a capture instruction to capture a target scene, and in response to detecting the trigger event, switching an image system at the apparatus from a first mode of operation, in which image data representing a captured target scene is generated at a fir...