ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,462, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Adeia Imaging LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Large depth of field camera with adjustable image sensor array" was invented by Anup Basu (Saint Albert, Canada) and Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for a camera and use of a camera to capture image data from 3D scenes and thereby generate large depth of field visualizations. The camera includes an optical system configured to generate an image of the 3D scene, an image sensor array positioned to receive the image of the 3D scene and including a plurality of image sensor segments, and a plurality of...