ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,514, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Compression of images for generating combined images" was invented by Abhijeet Dey (Bengaluru, India), Debarati Kundu (Bangalore, India), Joby Abraham (Bangalore, India), Animesh Behera (Bengaluru, India), Nageswara Rao Vavintaparthi (Banglaore, India), Venkatesh Hanamsagar (Bangalore, India), Shridhar Prakash Patil (Chikkodi, India) and Yathati Sankeerth (Vizianagaram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, processes, and computer-readable media to capture images with subjects at different depths of fields. For instance, a method ...