ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,510, issued on April 29, was assigned to TDK TAIWAN CORP. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Optical element driving mechanism with supporting assembly" was invented by Ya-Hsiu Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Ying-Jen Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Yi-Ho Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element driving mechanism is provided, including a movable part, a fixed part, a driving assembly, and a first supporting assembly. The movable part is used for connecting an optical element. The movable part is movable relative to the fixed part. The driving assembly is used for driving the movable part to move relative to the fixed part. The movabl...