US Patent Issued to Mitsumi Electric on Oct. 7 for "Lens drive device, camera module, and camera mount device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,355, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Mitsumi Electric Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Lens drive device, camera module, and camera mount device" was invented by Tomohiko Osaka (Tokyo) and Shun Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This lens drive device is provided with: a first movable part; a second movable part; a first drive part; and a second drive part. The first drive part and the second drive part respectively have a first ultrasonic motor and a second ultrasonic motor. The first ultrasonic motor and the second ultrasonic motor are arranged on sides opposite to each other with respect an optical axis, and independently drive the f...