ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,786, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image acquisition apparatus and electronic apparatus including same, and method of controlling image acquisition apparatus" was invented by Heejin Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image acquisition apparatus includes a multispectral imaging sensor for acquiring images of at least four channels based on a wavelength band of about 10 nm to about 1000 nm and a processor for setting an exposure time for each of the four channels based on transmission efficiency and quantum efficiency for each wavelength of each of t...