ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,515, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD (Singapore).

"System and method for operating a camera based on context data" was invented by Gary D. Cudak (Raleigh, N.C.), Nathan Peterson (Oxford, N.C.) and John M. Petersen (Forest, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device for capturing images is provided that can include a camera and one or more processors. The electronic device can also include a memory storing program instructions accessible by the one or more processors. Responsive to execution of the program instructions, the one or more processors are configured to obtain context data for a ...