US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Dec. 9 for "Camera device assembled with lens-to-sensor distance that reduces auto-focusing actuation power in macro mode" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,197, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Camera device assembled with lens-to-sensor distance that reduces auto-focusing actuation power in macro mode" was invented by Abhishek Dhanda (San Ramon, Calif.), Lidu Huang (Danville, Calif.) and Yizhi Xiong (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure further relate to a camera device assembled such that to reduce (and in some cases minimize) auto-focusing actuation power when the camera device operates in a macro mode. The camera device includes an image sensor and a lens assembly in an optical...