ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,208, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to TDK TAIWAN CORP. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Driving mechanism" was invented by Shao-Chung Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Fu-Yuan Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yu-Huai Liao (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Shou-Jen Liu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Kun-Shih Lin (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chien-Lun Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Shih-Wei Hung (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving mechanism is provided for moving an optical element, including a fixed module, a movable module holding the optical element, a driving assembly for driving the movable module to move relative to the fixed module, a position-sensing element, and a 3D circuit...