ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,758, issued on July 29, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Rotational ball-guided voice coil motor" was invented by Gil Bachar (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itay Jerby (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Itay Yedid (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Actuators for rotating or tilting an optical element, for example an optical path folding element, comprising a voice coil motor (VCM) and a curved ball-guided mechanism operative to create a rotation or tilt movement of the optical element around a rotation axis upon actuation by the VCM. In some embodiments, an actuator includes two, first and second VCMs, and two curved bal...