ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,851, issued on June 30, was assigned to LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD (Singapore).
"Camera assembly for an electronic device" was invented by Sean C. Kelly (Barrington, Ill.), Takashi Kubota (Tokyo), Zhijia Wen (Beijing), Qiang Wang (Beijing) and Koji Kawakita (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device is provided that includes a camera assembly. The camera assembly can include a lens that forms an image perimeter that defines an image circle, and a camera sensor aligned with the image circle and configured to obtain image data. The camera sensor may encompass the image circle to cover the image circle entirel...