US Patent Issued to ALPS ALPINE on July 14 for "Imaging apparatus, camera module, and control method for imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,362, issued on July 14, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus, camera module, and control method for imaging apparatus" was invented by Touichi Okuno (Tokyo), Kiyoto Sato (Miyagi, Japan) and Hiroshi Osada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes a fixed member including a fixed base; a movable member that is movable relative to the fixed member, the movable member including a lens holder configured to hold a lens body so as to face an imaging element; a first shape memory alloy wire; a second shape memory alloy wire; a first conductive path; a second conductive path; a common cond...