US Patent Issued to Apple on July 8 for "Optical image stabilization with voice coil motor for moving image sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,074, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Optical image stabilization with voice coil motor for moving image sensor" was invented by Seyed Mohammad Javid Mahmoudzadeh (San Jose, Calif.), Aurelien R Hubert (San Jose, Calif.) and Phillip R Sommer (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera includes a camera actuator having autofocus (AF) voice coil motor (VCM) with a lens carrier mounting attachment moveably mounted to a base, magnets mounted to the base, and an AF coil fixedly mounted to the lens carrier mounting attachment for producing forces for moving a lens carrier in a direction of an opt...