ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,280, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TDK TAIWAN CORP. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
"Driving mechanism" was invented by Guan-Bo Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yi-Chi Hsieh (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chen-Hsin Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Kai-Po Fan (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Sheng-Chang Lin (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, and a driving assembly. The movable part is movably connected to the fixed part for holding an optical element, wherein the optical element defines an optical axis. The driving assembly is configured to drive the movable part to move relative to the fixed part...