ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,542, issued on June 17, was assigned to NIDEC PRECISION Corp. (Tokyo).
"Imaging device" was invented by Yuusuke Suzuki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes an imaging element that receives subject light, a lens that guides the subject light traveling through a first opening in a housing to the imaging element, a blade between the first opening and the lens to restrict the subject light from entering the imaging element, and an actuator that moves the blade in a first direction intersecting with an optical axis of the lens to position the blade at one of a first position at which the subject light is restri...