US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 16 for "Flexure module component configurations for camera with moveable image sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,537, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Flexure module component configurations for camera with moveable image sensor" was invented by Himesh Patel (Fremont, Calif.), Anup K Sharma (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kai Min (San Jose, Calif.), Ho Seop Jeong (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Qiang Yang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera includes a lens carrier to which lens(es), defining an optical axis, are mounted. The lens carrier and the lens(es) are movable along the optical axis. The camera includes an autofocus (AF) damping structure for dampening motion of the lens carrier and the lens(es) in a d...