US Patent Issued to LG INNOTEK on Feb. 25 for "Lens moving apparatus, and camera module and portable device including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,516, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Lens moving apparatus, and camera module and portable device including the same" was invented by Tae Jin Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Sang Jun Min (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens moving apparatus is disclosed. The lens moving apparatus includes a cover member, a housing disposed in the cover member, a bobbin disposed in the housing, the bobbin being provided in an inner circumferential surface thereof with a screw thread, the bobbin being configured to move in a first direction, which is parallel to an optical-axis direction,...