US Patent Issued to Google on June 3 for "Camera alignment" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,083, issued on June 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Camera alignment" was invented by Joseph Allore (Mundelein, Ill.), Ding Ran Dai (Chicago), Michael J. Lombardi (South Barrington, Ill.) and David Kyungtag Lim (Glenview, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device may include camera modules and a camera enclosure configured to house the camera modules. The computing device may further include alignment wedges that each define a sloped surface configured to mechanically contact at least one of the camera enclosure or the camera modules. The alignment wedges may be configured to reposition the respect...