ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,236, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Electromagnetic interference shielding for camera" was invented by Amber Sun (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alan Kleiman Shwarsctein (Saratoga, Calif.) and Chien-Ming Nieh (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes a printed circuit, an image sensor, a lens assembly, and a multi-layer shield. The lens assembly is configured to focus image light to the image sensor. The multi-layer shield is disposed around the lens assembly and around the image sensor. The multi-layer shield includes a shield layer and a light-blocking l...