ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,095, issued on April 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Shake correction device and imaging apparatus" was invented by Shuhei Matsushita (Saitama, Japan), Yuta Abe (Saitama, Japan), Takuro Abe (Saitama, Japan), Yota Akashi (Saitama, Japan) and Kouhei Awazu (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a shake correction device and an imaging apparatus that can be thinned.A shake correction device performs shake correction of an imaging element and includes a movable unit that includes the imaging element and a coil of an actuator and is configured to move within a plane intersecting an optical axis; a fixed u...