US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 20 for "Electrical flexure component, separate from suspension, for sensor shift cameras" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,180, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electrical flexure component, separate from suspension, for sensor shift cameras" was invented by Douglas S Brodie (San Jose, Calif.), Scott W Miller (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Steven Webster (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flexure component(s), including arms physically separate from suspension flexures, in a sensor-shift camera, route power to and/or high-speed data produced by an image sensor, reducing complexity of the suspension. A camera includes a static portion (e.g., a base or non-moving portion of a platform of the camera) attached to one side o...