ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,141, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TDK TAIWAN CORP. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
"Optical element drive mechanism" was invented by Chen-Yu Yu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Shao-Chung Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Shih-Wei Hung (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Man-Ting Lu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Sin-Hong Lin (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Wei-Pin Chin (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element drive mechanism is provided. The optical element drive mechanism includes an immovable part, a movable part, a drive assembly, and a strengthening assembly. The movable part is connected to an optical element. The movable part is movable relative to the immovable part. ...