ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,995, issued on July 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Adaptive exposure" was invented by Simon Fortin-Deschenes (Santa Clara, Calif.), Christian I Moore (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Daniel A Glynn (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anthony Ghannoum (Montreal), Paolo Di Febbo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Luke A Pillans (San Diego), Christophe Seyve (Saratoga, Calif.) and Zhongmin Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein improve the appearance of captured video by accounting for motion-induced blur, noise, lighting, and/or other factors related to the appearance of video captured by rotatin...