ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,079, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Method of operating multi-camera system and multi-camera system performing the same" was invented by Kyounghwan Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of operating a multi-camera system, a first auto exposure (AE) is performed on a first master camera among a plurality of first cameras controlled by a first image signal processor. A first auto white balance (AWB) is performed on the first master camera. Operations of all of the plurality of first cameras are controlled by the first image signal processor based on results...