ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,404, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Lens driving device and camera module including lens driving device" was invented by Seungyun Paek (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kyunghun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens driving device includes a carrier; and an image stabilization unit including a lens holder for a lens barrel, and a support frame having a quadrangular frame structure including four corner regions and supporting the lens holder. The lens holder is disposed in the carrier. The image stabilization unit is configured to move the lens holder ...