ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,646, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Actutek Corporation. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Method for controlling optical element driving mechanism" was invented by Ya-Hsiu Wu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Sin-Jhong Song (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an optical element driving mechanism is provided, including driving a movable portion to move relative to a fixed portion by a driving mechanism, and defining the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion in a limit range. The movable portion is used for connecting to an optical element, and the movable portion is movable relative to the ...