US Patent Issued to Cambridge Mechatronics, Hutchinson Technology on April 7 for "Camera assembly" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,267, issued on April 7, was assigned to Cambridge Mechatronics Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Hutchinson Technology Inc..

"Camera assembly" was invented by Chee Keong Lai (Hutchinson, Minn.), James Howarth (Cambridge, Great Britain), Peter Francis Ladwig (Hutchinson, Minn.), Richard Rodger Jenneke (Hutchinson, Minn.), Robin Eddington (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Stephen Matthew Bunting (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera assembly comprises a lens assembly supported on a support structure, wherein the lens assembly includes an autofocus actuator arrangement and the camera assembly includes an optic...