ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,321, issued on July 14, was assigned to Actutek Corp. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Optical element driving mechanism" was invented by Yu-Chiao Lo (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Hsiao-Hsin Hu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Chih-Wen Chiang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Chia-Che Wu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Mao-Gen Jian (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Yi-Ho Chen (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Chao-Chang Hu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element driving mechanism is provided. The optical element driving mechanism includes a movable part, a fixed part, a driving assembly, and a pressure assembly. The movable part connects an optical element. T...