US Patent Issued to Miniswys, MITSUMI ELECTRIC on April 29 for "Lens driving apparatus, camera module and camera-mounted apparatus" (Swiss, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,524, issued on April 29, was assigned to Miniswys S.A. (Bienne, Switzerland) and MITSUMI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Lens driving apparatus, camera module and camera-mounted apparatus" was invented by Shun Suzuki (Tokyo), Yoichi Itagaki (Tokyo), Raphael Hoesli (Nidau, Switzerland), Maxime Roten (Fenin, Switzerland), Michael Brumann (Bienne, Switzerland) and Loann Baume (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens drive device is provided with a first fixed part, a first movable part, a first supporting part, and a Z-direction drive unit which moves the first movable section in an optical axis direction (the Z-directio...