ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,743, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Camera module" was invented by Bo Sung Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byung Gi An (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hwan Jun Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Young Bok Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jun Sup Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes: an optical image stabilization (OIS) base; an OIS holder movably coupled to the OIS base in a first direction perpendicular to an optical axis, and fixedly coupled to an image sensor; and a first OIS actuator configured to shift the image sensor in the first d...