ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,959, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Magnetic camera brake" was invented by Zachary W. Birnbaum (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andrew S. Jozefov (San Francisco) and Scott W. Miller (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various magnetic camera brake embodiments are disclosed. According to some embodiments, the magnetic camera brakes leverage a magnetic attraction (or repulsion) force between an iron and magnetic body to hold the moving camera components at a desired focus position-even under high amplitude acceleration loads. When high disturbance rejection is desired, the magnet attracts the came...