US Patent Issued to Acuvi on March 3 for "Control system for optical zoom and focus for miniature camera modules" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,295, issued on March 3, was assigned to Acuvi AB (Uppsala, Sweden).

"Control system for optical zoom and focus for miniature camera modules" was invented by Hakan Ohlgren (Vendelso, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for driving an optical lens system having a first and a second group of optical lenses movable along a linear path parallel to an optical axis by a first and second motor, respectively, and a drive unit, comprises reading (S2, S4) of a present position of the groups and communicating (S6) it to the drive unit. In the drive unit, a command representing a requested optical zoom degree and/or a requested focusin...