US Patent Issued to Asahi Kasei Microdevices on Nov. 11 for "Drive apparatus for driving an object to a target position in a stepwise manner through via points sequentially" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,824, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corp. (Tokyo).

"Drive apparatus for driving an object to a target position in a stepwise manner through via points sequentially" was invented by Keita Okada (Tokyo) and Takahito Hara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a drive apparatus including: a first drive unit group including first drive units, each for generating a magnetic field to drive a first object provided with a first lens and magnet in an optical axis direction; and a second drive unit group including second drive units, each for generating a magnetic field to drive a second object provided ...