ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,155, issued on April 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Device and method for extended depth of field imaging" was invented by Alexey Aleksandrovich Osipov (Moscow), Tatiana Igorevna Kopysova (Moscow), Alexander Sergeevich Shlyapin (Moscow), Dmitriy Evgenyevich Piskunov (Moscow) and Ksenia Yurievna Petrova (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for extended depth of field imaging are provided. The device includes an optical device configured to simultaneously form intermediate images of an object at different distances with a blur effect on at least parts of images of the o...