US Patent Issued to Apple on June 2 for "Neutralizing magnetic component arrangements in a variable aperture device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,009, issued on June 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Neutralizing magnetic component arrangements in a variable aperture device" was invented by Wei Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bin Xu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Xu Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include a neutralizing magnetic component arrangement in a variable aperture device for a camera system. The variable aperture device may include a rotor, a stator, aperture blades arranged to form an aperture stop, and an actuator for moving the aperture blades to change a size of the aperture. In various embodiments, magnetic components o...