ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,427, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TDK TAIWAN CORP. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
"Optical element driving mechanism" was invented by Fu-Yuan Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Sin-Jhong Song (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element driving mechanism including a fixed part, a movable part, a first driving assembly, a second driving assembly, and a magnetic-permeable element is provided. The fixed part includes a bottom. The movable part holding an optical element with an optical axis is movable relative to the fixed part. The first driving assembly includes a first magnetic element and a first coil arranged along a first dire...