US Patent Issued to LG INNOTEK on Feb. 10 for "Lens moving apparatus and camera module including damping members for inhibiting oscillations of the bobbin" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,972, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Lens moving apparatus and camera module including damping members for inhibiting oscillations of the bobbin" was invented by Jung Cheol Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jin Suk Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes a housing including a guide protrusion projecting from an upper surface thereof and a guide groove formed adjacent to the guide protrusion, a first magnet disposed at the housing, a bobbin on which a lens is mounted, a first coil disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the bobbin to move the bobbin...