US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Use of zonal adaptive illumination" (Ukrainian, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,078, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Use of zonal adaptive illumination" was invented by Dmitry V Bakin (San Jose, Calif.), Samuel Lee (Los Angeles), Alexander Bruce Gentles (Brampton, Great Britain), Rajesh Reddy Nandyala (Cambridge, Great Britain), Danylo Dorofeyev (Kyiv, Ukraine), Andrii Uklein (Kyiv, Ukraine), Andrii Shekera (Vyshneve, Ukraine) and Ilya Brailovskiy (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for managing illumination associated with image capture by devices by adjusting illumination in one or more sub-portions of an area during image cap...