ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,930, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for generating astro-lapse video on user device" was invented by Pradeep Kumar Sindhagatta Krishnappa (Bangalore, India), Seunghun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Pradhit Ongole (Bangalore, India), Adithya S Kamath (Bangalore, India), Muneeswaran Santhanam (Virudhunagar, India) and Prasanth Kammampati (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (1300) and system (201) for generating an astro-lapse video on a user device is disclosed. Initially, at least one current frame comprising one or more stars, is captured v...