ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,204, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Synchronized multi-lens multi-frame capture and post-capture editing" was invented by Abhiram Gnanasambandam (Frisco, Texas), Gunawath Dilshan Godaliyadda (Allen, Texas), John Seokjun Lee (Allen, Texas) and Hamid Rahim Sheikh (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera with multiple lenses providing different optical zoom levels captures time-aligned frames from each lens concurrently based on a user control. The user indicates a desired post-capture zoom level for the image on a user interface. Based on the user-selected zoom lev...