ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,139, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Lens driver" was invented by Jibuem Chun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hongjoo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Namki Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jongwoo Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaehyung Han (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens driver includes a coil that is disposed on a substrate, a sensing portion that is disposed to not overlap the coil along a first direction and a second direction in which the substrate extends, a first magnet that faces the coil along a third direction that is perpendicular to the first ...