ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,997, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Stray light mitigation in optical systems" was invented by Tom Sengelaub (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Emanuele Mandelli (Mountain View, Calif.), Aleksandr M Movshovich (Santa Clara, Calif.), Martin Haller (Mountain View, Calif.), Hao Qin (Mountain View, Calif.) and Hua Gao (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for stray light mitigation in optical systems that include two or more illumination sources (e.g., point light sources such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs)) that illuminate an object to be imaged, and a camera configured to captur...