ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,144, issued on March 18, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus, imaging method, and imaging program that uses imaging recording modes for motion picture imaging" was invented by Shunta Ego (Saitama, Japan), Motoo Shigetoshi (Saitama, Japan) and Kazuya Okiyama (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit that is capable of performing imaging and recording; a first operating part; a second operating part; a mode setting unit; a storage unit that stores a still picture set value for imaging and recording of a still picture and a motion picture set value for imaging a...