ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,858, issued on May 27, was assigned to CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Camera assembly providing optical image stabilisation" was invented by Andrew Benjamin David Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera assembly comprises a support structure and an image sensor mounted on a carrier that is suspended on the support structure by at least one plain bearing that allows movement of the carrier and the image sensor relative to the support structure in any direction laterally to the light-sensitive region of the image sensor. An actuator arrangement comprising plural shape memory all...