ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,903, issued on June 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Camera comprising a roll correction actuator" was invented by Xiao Liao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Bin Xu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Aurelien R Hubert (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhuzhen Ji (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera, consisting of a housing and an image sensor contained in the housing. The camera also has objective optics, which are coupled to the housing and which have an optical axis and which are configured to form an image on the image sensor. There is a mount, fixed within the housing, that has a frame, which holds the image sensor and is c...