US Patent Issued to Apple on March 17 for "Single flex circuit shared by multiple cameras of a multi-camera system" (British, Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,206, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Single flex circuit shared by multiple cameras of a multi-camera system" was invented by Julien C Vittu (Saratoga, Calif.), Howell John Chua Toc (Singapore), Justin C Brunnett (Danville, Calif.), Mark R Pearce (Angus, Great Britain), Sai Harsha Jandhyala (Carlsbad, Calif.), Himesh Patel (Fremont, Calif.) and Raviprakash R Salinamakki (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include a multi-camera system having a flex circuit that is shared by a first camera and a second camera. The second camera may be actively aligned with the fir...