ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,329, issued on July 15, was assigned to TDK TAIWAN CORP. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Optical system" was invented by Chao-Chang Hu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Che-Wei Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chih-Wen Chiang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chen-Er Hsu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Fu-Yuan Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Shou-Jen Liu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Weng (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Mao-Kuo Hsu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Hsueh-Ju Lu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Che-Hsiang Chiu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system is provided and includes a fixed assembly, a movable element, a movable assembly, and a driving module. The fixed assembly defines a main axis, and the fixed ...