ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,536, issued on April 29.

"Systems and methods for capturing stabilized images" was invented by Sebastien Riccardi (Brezins, France), Pierre Grenet (Grenoble, France) and Jerome Lachaux (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for capturing stabilized images. Motion of the mobile device is determined so that the relative position of the lens and image sensor may be adjusted to compensate for unintended motion. The relative position of the lens and image sensor may be periodically reset in response to a synchronization signal in between capturing images."

The patent was filed on Nov. 22, 2022, ...