ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,561, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Photographing method and device" was invented by Guosheng Li (Beijing), Minghua Zhang (Beijing) and Haohan Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photographing method includes: in response to determining that a processing condition for multi-frame photographing is met, acquiring images from one or more second photographing apparatuses respectively to obtain a plurality of frames of images; and performing multi-frame fusion processing on the plurality of frames of images to obtain a photographed image."

The patent was filed on March 31...