ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,940, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to AAG Microtech (Changzhou) Co. Ld. (Changzhou City, China).

"Sensor drive mechanism" was invented by Zhang Ren (Changzhou, China), Yun Tang (Changzhou, China) and Wei Song (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a sensor drive mechanism including a housing, an image sensor module with an optical axis, an elastic support member, a driving coil fixed on the image sensor module, and at least one magnet system fixed on the housing. Each of the at least one magnet system includes a plurality of magnet units arranged at intervals. Each of the plurality of magn...