ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,118, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and UNIST (ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) (Ulsan, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for acquiring image using multispectral sensor" was invented by Woo-Shik Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngshin Kwak (Ulsan, South Korea), Jisu Ohk (Ulsan, South Korea) and Hyesun Han (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of acquiring an image includes: acquiring channel signals corresponding to more than four channels from a multispectral sensor; determining a cumulative infrared signal included in all of the chann...