ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,962, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Driving component, camera assembly and electronic device" was invented by Jiangwei Liu (Beijing), Hui Wang (Beijing) and Zongbao Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving component includes a fixing frame, a carrier unit and a magnetostrictive member. The carrier unit is configured to carry a component to be driven, and the carrier unit is connected to the fixing frame and configured to move relative to the fixing frame. The magnetostrictive member is connected with the fixing frame and the carrier unit and configured to control a p...