US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 28 for "Chassis cut-out to improve reliability and performance for cameras including bearing structures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,834, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Chassis cut-out to improve reliability and performance for cameras including bearing structures" was invented by Nicholas D Smyth (San Jose, Calif.) and Scott W Miller (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may have a multi-camera system including one or more camera modules. At least one camera module may include one or more lenses, an image sensor, and a chassis structure. The camera module may include a bearing structure including one or more stages moving on a plurality of rolling elements to allow the lenses and/or the image sensor to mov...