ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,526, issued on April 29, was assigned to TDK TAIWAN CORP. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
"Optical element driving mechanism" was invented by Chao-Chang Hu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chen-Hsien Fan (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Yueh-Lin Lee (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element driving mechanism is provided in the present disclosure, including a first movable portion, a fixed portion, a first driving assembly and a first supporting assembly. The first movable portion is connected to a first optical element. The first movable portion is movable relative to the fixed portion. The first driving assembly drives the first movable portion t...