ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,671, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Holographic stray light suppression" was invented by Michael Young (Broomfield, Colo.), Daniel Ott (Boulder, Colo.), Maria I Campana (Boulder, Colo.), Chuan Luo (Broomfield, Colo.), Adam C Urness (Boulder, Colo.) and Scott M DeLapp (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a camera, a lens, and gratings overlapping the lens. The gratings may diffract a first portion of light incident from a first range of incident angles while transmitting a second portion of the light incident from a second range of incident angles. The lens may...