ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,247, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Techniques for adjusting focus of a camera using machine vision" was invented by Yongwoo Park (Seattle), James C Curlander (Lafayette, Colo.) and Brice Jamieson (Kenmore, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for adjusting focus of a camera using machine vision are described herein. A set of red-blue-green (RGB) pixel arrays of a target image can be received via a camera. Each RGB pixel array of the set of RGB pixel arrays can correspond to a different focus value of the camera. A set of hue-saturation-value (HSV) pixel arrays of the target image c...