ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,131, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Shape memory alloy motor, motor module, camera compact module, and electronic device" was invented by Dong Huang (Shanghai), Deliang Li (Shanghai) and Gang Wang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera compact system includes a shape memory alloy (SMA) motor, a lens array, a plurality of magnetic isolation members, and an image sensor, where the SMA motor is configured to move the lens array; and each of the magnetic isolation members is located between the SMA motor and the image sensor to reduce a degree of magnetic interference t...