ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,675, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for applying visual effect and setting tag to captured image" was invented by Youngdae Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Younggyun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyeonkyoon Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Changmin Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeyun Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byunghwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sejong Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jihwan Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Joonhyuk Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yonghoon Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device inclu...