ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,169, issued on May 27, was assigned to AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co. Ltd. (Changzhou, China).

"Linear driving apparatus" was invented by Lin Qian (Shenzhen, China), Weiling Shi (Shenzhen, China), Min Chen (Shenzhen, China), Shun Guo (Shenzhen, China), Xueyuan Zhu (Shenzhen, China) and Yu Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a linear driving apparatus. The linear driving apparatus includes: stators; rotors slidably arranged on the stators; a driving component configured to drive the rotors to slide along an extension direction of the stators; first position feedback units provided with ...