US Patent Issued to ACTUTEK on March 17 for "Optical element driving mechanism" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,620, issued on March 17, was assigned to ACTUTEK Corp. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Optical element driving mechanism" was invented by Ya-Hsiu Wu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Yi-Ho Chen (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Ying-Jen Wang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element driving mechanism used for driving a first optical element is provided. The optical element driving mechanism includes a fixed portion and a first driving assembly. The first driving assembly is used for driving the first optical element to move relative to the fixed portion in a first dimension."

The patent was filed on Dec. 27, 2022, under Appli...