ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,104, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Accelerator, storage device, and VR system" was invented by Sooyoung Ji (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minho Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dongouk Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sanghwa Jin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accelerator includes a memory access module configured to acquire a plurality of original images for generating a VR image from a input device, and a computing module including a stitching region detector, a stitching processor, an image processor, and a combination processor. The memory access module is configured...