US Patent Issued to Mitsumi Electric on Jan. 13 for "Optical element driving device, camera module, camera-mounted device, and driving method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,918, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Mitsumi Electric Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Optical element driving device, camera module, camera-mounted device, and driving method" was invented by Koki Hiwatashi (Tokyo) and Yoichi Itagaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element driving device includes a fixed body, a movable body, a driving part that converts vibration motion of a piezoelectric element into linear motion for driving the movable body, a drive control part that applies a drive signal to the driving part, a drive detection part that detects the drive state of the driving part, and a temperature measurement part that m...