ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,132, issued on March 4, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Lens driving apparatus, and camera module and optical device comprising same" was invented by Sang Ok Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure defined by this invention includes a housing comprising a first to a fourth corner portions, magnets arranged on the first to the fourth corner portions, respectively, a bobbin disposed in the housing, a first coil including a coil, which is disposed on the bobbin and faces the magnets, a position sensor disposed between the first corner portion and the second corner portion of the ...