ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,124, issued on March 31, was assigned to LENOVO (BEIJING) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Image acquisition method and device" was invented by Zhichao Chen (Beijing), Shanyao Lei (Beijing) and Zhuoran Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image acquisition method includes, in response to a target application being in a target operating mode, obtaining a first image by a target camera in a first operating mode and obtaining a second image by the target camera in a second operating mode. A resolution of the first image and a resolution of the second image are different."

The patent was filed on Sept. 15, 2023, under Application No. 18/467,9...