ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,164, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device for controlling resolution of each of plurality of areas included in image acquired from camera and method thereof" was invented by Boyoung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sungoh Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Donghyun Yeom (Suwon-si, South Korea), Daehee Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Suhyung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jihyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sanghun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yongil Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sungsoo Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor of a wearable device...