ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,661, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to POSTECH Research and Business Development Foundation (Pohang-si, South Korea) and SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL (Seoul, South Korea).

"Photographing apparatus and photographing method" was invented by Ki Hean Kim (Pohang-si, South Korea), Chang Ho Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), Jungbin Lee (Pohang-si, South Korea), Soohyun Park (Pohang-si, South Korea), Seonghan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Kyungbin Bae (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a photographing apparatus including an image capturing unit including a first light source, an object lens, and a first light de...