ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,106, issued on April 8, was assigned to LARGAN PRECISION Co. LTD. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Variable aperture module, imaging lens module and electronic device" was invented by Te-Sheng Tseng (Taichung, Taiwan), Chen Wei Fan (Taichung, Taiwan), Ming-Ta Chou (Taichung, Taiwan) and Kuan-Ming Chen (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable aperture module includes a blade assembly including movable blades, a positioning element including positioning structures and a driving part including a rotation element. The movable blades are disposed around an optical axis to form a light passable hole with adjustable size for differen...