US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on July 1 for "Imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,867, issued on July 1, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging device" was invented by Kazuaki Okamori (Saitama, Japan), Yoshihiro Hayashi (Saitama, Japan) and Kazunori Tamura (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes an imaging element, a holding unit that holds the imaging element, a support unit that supports the holding unit such that the holding unit is movable, coils that drive the holding unit, flexible printed boards that are connected to the imaging element or the coils, a control board that is connected to the imaging element or the coils via the flexible printed boards, and a through...