ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,451, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS INC. (Shiga, Japan).

"Flexible printed circuit board and image stabilization module" was invented by Masanao Yamashita (Osaka, Japan), Yukie Tsuda (Osaka, Japan), Yuichi Nakamura (Osaka, Japan), Koji Nitta (Osaka, Japan) and Kou Noguchi (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible printed circuit board according to the present disclosures includes a base film having an insulating property and a planar coil disposed on a surface of the base film, wherein a number of turns on an outside of a cente...