ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,969, issued on May 27, was assigned to LANTO ELECTRONIC Ltd. (Kunshan, China).

"Camera device" was invented by Fu-Yuan Wu (Taipei, Taiwan), Shang-Yu Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yu-Cheng Lin (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera device comprises an image sensor, a first moving module and two groups of second moving modules. The first moving module is connected to the image sensor. The first moving module is activated to move the image sensor linearly along a first axis. The second moving module is connected to the image sensor. The second moving module is activated to move the image sensor linearly along a second axis, ...