ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,718, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TDK TAIWAN CORP. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Driving mechanism" was invented by Chao-Hsi Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Kuen-Wang Tsai (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Weng (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chao-Chang Hu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving mechanism is provided, including a fixed part, a movable part connected to the fixed part, and a driving assembly configured to impel the movable part relative to the fixed part, so that the driving mechanism is switchable between an open state and a closed state. The fixed part has a plurality of holes. When the driving mechanism is in the open state,...