ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,545, issued on July 28, was assigned to Actutek Corp. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Optical element driving mechanism" was invented by Po-Xiang Zhuang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Wei-Jhe Shen (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Sin-Jhong Song (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Shou-Jen Liu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Kun-Shih Lin (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, including a movable portion, a fixed portion, and a driving assembly. The movable portion is connected to an optical element. The movable portion is movable relative ...