ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,226, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to LANTO ELECTRONIC Ltd. (Kunshan, China).

"Base assembly of voice coil motor and voice coil motor" was invented by Wen-Yen Huang (Taipei, Taiwan), Fu-Yuan Wu (Taipei, Taiwan), Shang-Yu Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan), Meng-Ting Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), BingBing Ma (Kunshan, China) and Jie Du (Kunshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a base assembly of voice coil motor and a voice coil motor. The base assembly includes a base body having a first elastic piece connecting area, a lower elastic piece disposed on the first elastic piece connecting area, and a first terminal dispos...