US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on May 12 for "Image capture at varying optical powers" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,351, issued on May 12, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Image capture at varying optical powers" was invented by Youmin Wang (Bellevue, Wash.) and Yatong An (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes an image pixel array and a plurality of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) Alvarez tunable lenses disposed over regions of the imaging pixels. The MEMS Alvarez tunable lenses are configured to be adjusted to varying optical powers to focus image light to the plurality of imaging pixels at varying focus depths. Processing logic is configured to drive the plurality of...