ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,917, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Camera actuator" was invented by Mi Sun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Kyung Won Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Kyung Sung Chu (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera actuator according to an embodiment includes a housing; a prism part disposed in the housing; and a driving part disposed in the housing and tilting the prism part; wherein the driving part includes: a first piezoelectric element disposed in a region overlapping in a first direction with respect to a center of the prism part; and a second piezoelectric element disposed in a r...