US Patent Issued to CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS on Aug. 18 for "SMA actuators for optical image stabilisation" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,132, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"SMA actuators for optical image stabilisation" was invented by Andrew Benjamin Simpson Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain), Stephen Matthew Bunting (Cambridge, Great Britain) and David Charles William Richards (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present techniques provide shape memory alloy (SMA) actuation apparatus for moving a moveable component relative to a static component or support structure and along a notional primary axis. The SMA actuation apparatus may comprise a biasing e...