ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,043, issued on July 8, was assigned to TDK TAIWAN CORP. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
"Optical element driving mechanism" was invented by Chao-Chang Hu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Weng (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chao-Hsi Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Kuen-Wang Tsai (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element driving mechanism has an optical axis, and includes a fixed portion, a movable element, a plurality of blades, and a driving assembly. The fixed portion has an opening. The movable element is movable relative to the fixed portion. The blades are connected to the movable element. The driving assembly drives the movable element to ...