US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 8 for "Camera systems with improved actuator stability" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,697, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Camera systems with improved actuator stability" was invented by Nicholas D. Smyth (San Jose, Calif.), Jason T. Weaver (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Ross A. Williams (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Zirui Zhai (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments disclosed herein include bearing actuator arrangements, as well as cameras and devices that incorporate these bearing actuator arrangements. The bearing actuator arrangements described herein include a preloading arrangement configured to provide a magnetic preloading force between two components of the bearing...