ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,497, issued on June 10, was assigned to Adeia Imaging LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for capturing an image of a desired moment" was invented by Zhiyun Li (Kenmore, Wash.), Ruoyun Li (Kenmore, Wash.) and Qingyun Li (Kenmore, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatuses are described for determining an image that corresponds to a received input instruction. Input may be received which comprises an instruction for an image sensor to capture at least one image of a subject and the instruction comprising at least one criterion for the at least one image of the subject. An image sensor may capture, b...