ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,696, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Zooming method and apparatus with consistent target position while switching cameras" was invented by Chen Li (Shenzhen, China), Guang Li (Shenzhen, China) and Wen Zou (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of zooming an image capturing device may comprise outputting a first image collected by a first camera of an image capturing device, wherein the first camera has a first focal length; controlling switching of the current focal length of the image capturing device from the first focal length supported by the first camera to a se...