ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,954, issued on July 22, was assigned to AMS-OSRAM AG (Premstaetten, Austria).

"Camera system, mobile device and method of operating a mobile device for multi-focus imaging" was invented by Peter Pann (Graz, Austria) and Alexander Pann (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one embodiment a camera system includes a multi-focus lens, an image sensor and an image processor. The multi-focus lens has a first focal length and a second focal length. The image processor is arranged downstream of the multi-focus lens. In operation, the image sensor generates a combined image according to the first and second focal lengths o...