US Patent Issued to Apple on July 1 for "Adaptive-flash photography, videography, and/or flashlight using camera, scene, or user input parameters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,875, issued on July 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Adaptive-flash photography, videography, and/or flashlight using camera, scene, or user input parameters" was invented by Bosheng Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Angelo M Alaimo (San Jose, Calif.), Noah D Bedard (Los Gatos, Calif.), Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki (Los Altos, Calif.), Tongbo Chen (Los Gatos, Calif.), Paul M Hubel (Mountain View, Calif.), Farhan A Baqai (Fremont, Calif.), Nicolas Pierre Bonnier (Mountain View, Calif.) and Bryan Dang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light source module includes an array of illumination elements and an optional p...