ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,617, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Actutek Corp. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Optical element driving mechanism" was invented by Chao-Chang Hu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Chen-Hsien Fan (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Chih-Wen Chiang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Chien-Yu Kao (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element driving mechanism is provided and includes a fixed assembly, a first movable assembly and a first driving assembly. The first movable assembly is configured to connect a first optical element, and the first movable assembly is movable relative to the fixed assembly. The first driving assembly is configure...