ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,157, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Camera device and optical instrument" was invented by Sang Ok Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Sang Jun Min (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment comprises: a fixing part; a moving part including a substrate part arranged to be spaced from the fixing part, and an image sensor arranged on the substrate part; a shape memory alloy member which is coupled to the fixing part and the moving part, and which is electrically connected to the substrate part; a location sensing unit including first, second and third sensors arranged on the ...