ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,966, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Method and apparatus for image capturing" was invented by Jiafu Luo (Irvine, Calif.), Xiaoyun Jiang (San Diego), Narayana Karthik Ravirala (San Diego) and Jianyou Li (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for image fusing are described. In examples, a first image of a scene may be obtained associated with a first parameter and a second image of the scene may be obtained associated with a second parameter. The first image and the second image may be fused to obtain at least one first fused image. A third image of the scene may be obtained associat...