US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 20 for "High voltage discharge electrode for electrostatic charge neutralization in compact camera modules" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,061, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"High voltage discharge electrode for electrostatic charge neutralization in compact camera modules" was invented by Zachary W. Birnbaum (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module for an electronic device includes an actuator structure for positioning an element of the camera module, such as an image sensor or a lens element. The actuator structure includes an insulating material that physically and conductively separates the image sensor from a discharge electrode configured to be driven to high voltage so as to ionize gasses within a mo...