ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,638, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to TDK TAIWAN CORP. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
"Optical element driving mechanism" was invented by Chen-Hung Chao (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yi-Chieh Lin (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Tsung-Han Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Shou-Jen Liu (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, and a driving assembly. The movable part is for connecting the optical element. The movable part is movable relative to the fixed part. The driving assembly is used for generating a driving force to drive the movable part to move relative to the fixed part. The...