US Patent Issued to MITSUMI ELECTRIC on May 13 for "Optical-element driving device, camera module and camera-mounted device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,997, issued on May 13, was assigned to MITSUMI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Optical-element driving device, camera module and camera-mounted device" was invented by Masayoshi Sugawara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical-element driving device includes: a holding groove formed in a first fixing part to hold a first supporting part; and a first biasing part including an elastic member and a spacer that are disposed with the first supporting part in the holding groove. The first biasing part biases the first supporting part toward a first movable part by the elastic member via the spacer. The first supporting part includes a...