ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,073, issued on July 8, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging apparatus" was invented by Shusaku Nakata (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor that captures a subject image via an optical system; a detector that detects a shake amount of the imaging apparatus; a calculation circuitry that performs a calculation for image stabilization, based on the shake amount detected by the detector; and an image stabilizer that performs the image stabilization by translational movement and rotational movement within a predetermined movable ra...