ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,322, issued on July 14, was assigned to Changzhou AAC Raytech Optronics Co. Ltd. (Changzhou City, China).

"Lens drive module" was invented by Tongming Xu (Changzhou, China), Suohe Wei (Changzhou, China) and Limei Zhao (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a lens drive module including a base, a support base disposed on the base, a magnet group connected to the support base, optical image stabilization (OIS) coils disposed on a region of the base corresponding to the magnet group and electrically connected to output points of the base, a lens barrel disposed in an inner ring of the support ba...