US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 30 for "Camera cover with multiple integrated lenses" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,927, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Camera cover with multiple integrated lenses" was invented by Surya Pratap Mishra (Portland, Ore.), Mark Edmund Sprenger (Tigard, Ore.), James M. Yoder (Beaverton, Ore.), Prosenjit Ghosh (Portland, Ore.) and Jordan E. Maslov (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a camera sensor within a housing and a camera cover comprising a plurality of lenses coupled to the housing. The camera cover is moveably coupled to the housing to allow each respective lens of the plurality of lenses to be optically aligned with the...