US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 16 for "Miniaturized adaptive optics with deformable phase plate for digital tilt and aberration correction" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,621, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Miniaturized adaptive optics with deformable phase plate for digital tilt and aberration correction" was invented by Milan Maksimovic (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Arnaud Pouydebasque (Varces-Allieres-et-Risset, France), Marjorie Trzmiel (Grenoble, France), Miodrag Scepanovic (San Jose, Calif.), Nachiappan Chidambaram (Fontanil Cornillon, France) and Sebastien Bolis (Crolles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, the camera system comprises: an optical assembly to create an optical image from the optical wavefront; a deformable phase plate (DPP) to r...