ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,789, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Damper arrangement for actuator damping" was invented by Bin Xu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Qiang Yang (Fremont, Calif.), Yoshiyuki Takase (Tokyo) and Aurelien R. Hubert (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include a damper arrangement that may be used to dampen motions of a dynamic component. In some embodiments, the damper arrangement may be used in a camera module that includes a stationary component and a dynamic component. For instance, the dynamic component may hold a lens such that the lens moves together with the dynamic componen...