US Patent Issued to Samsung Electro-Mechanics on Aug. 5 for "Actuator for camera, and camera module including the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,607, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Actuator for camera, and camera module including the same" was invented by Kyung Hun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator for a camera includes a guide member, a base, and a carrier stacked in a housing in an optical axis direction, a first driving unit generating driving force in a first axial direction and a second axial direction, the first driving unit including a plurality of magnets and a plurality of coils, and a second driving unit generating driving force in the optical axis direction and includ...