ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,566, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Optical element driving mechanism" was invented by Pai-Jui Cheng (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Shu-Shan Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element driving mechanism is provided. The optical element driving mechanism includes a fixed portion, a first movable portion, and a driving assembly. The first movable portion movably connects to the fixed portion and used for disposing a first optical element. The driving assembly is used for driving the first movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion. The driving assembly includes piezoelectric driving a...