US Patent Issued to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS on Sept. 23 for "Time-multiplexed illumination blending" (American, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,738, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).

"Time-multiplexed illumination blending" was invented by Joseph Rafferty (Corona, Calif.), William Fincannon (Allen, Texas), Pietro Russo (Melrose, Mass.), Chan Yi Siew (Penang, Malaysia) and Peter L. Venetianer (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples provide a variable zoom imaging system including an image sensor, a set of illumination channels, and a current driver circuitry for driving the set of illumination channels. Each respective illumination channel includes a set of light sources and a lens, and is associated with a respective focus d...