ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,411, issued on July 15, was assigned to Chicony Electronics Co. Ltd. (New Taipei, Taiwan).
"Image capturing device" was invented by Yu-Hsuan Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chien-Yueh Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing device includes a base, a light sensing element, an image capturing lens, and multiple light sources. The light sensing element is disposed on the base. The image capturing lens is disposed above the light sensing element. The light sources are disposed on the base and arranged beside the image capturing lens. Each of the light sources emits a light beam. A chief ray direction of th...