ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,704, issued on June 3, was assigned to TDK TAIWAN CORP. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Optical element driving mechanism" was invented by Shu-Shan Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chao-Chang Hu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chih-Wei Weng (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element drive mechanism is provided. The optical element drive mechanism includes an immovable part, a first movable part, and a first drive assembly. The first movable part is connected to a first optical element. The first movable part is movable relative to the immovable part. The first drive assembly drives the first movable part to move relative to the immovable par...