ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,673, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Ball bearing sensor shift camera with flexure" was invented by Ya-Wen Hsu (San Francisco), Aurelien R Hubert (San Jose, Calif.), Jinjun Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Yazan Z Alnahhas (Stanford, Calif.), Kevin Garrison (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nitin Kumar Chennupati (Mountain View, Calif.) and Nicole Elizabeth Cazares (Yongsan-gu, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include a camera having a ball bearing voice coil motor (VCM) actuator for moving a carrier (and image sensor) and a flexure to supply a drive current to the ball bearing VCM actu...