US Patent Issued to TDK TAIWAN on July 15 for "Optical element driving mechanism" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,331, issued on July 15, 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), Chih-Wen Chiang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chien-Yu Kao (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element driving mechanism is provided and includes a fixed assembly, a first movable assembly and a first driving assembly. The first movable assembly is configured to connect a first optical element, and the first movable assembly is movable relative to the fixed assembly. The first driving assembly is configured to drive the first m...