ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,398, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NIDEC INSTRUMENTS Corp. (Nagano, Japan).

"Wiring board, optical unit with shake correction function, and manufacturing method of optical unit with shake correction function" was invented by Shinji Minamisawa (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wiring board includes a flat band-shaped portion constituted by a flexible printed circuit board and a reinforcing plate having a flat-plate shape and made of metal, a part of which is fixed to the band-shaped portion, and the band-shaped portion and the reinforcing plate are bent at a predetermined position during manufacture of an optical un...