ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,810, issued on April 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Drive apparatus and equipment" was invented by Takayuki Taguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive apparatus includes a first unit including a coil, a second unit including a magnet, and a third unit having an electronic device. The third unit is fixed to the first unit. The first unit and the third unit move relative to the second unit by a magnetic force between the coil and the magnet. The first unit includes a first opening and a second opening in a direction along a principal surface of the electronic device in an area overlapping the principal sur...