US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Feb. 17 for "Compact actuator assemblies for optical path folding elements" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,097, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Compact actuator assemblies for optical path folding elements" was invented by Naoki Sekiguchi (Tokyo), Atsushi Horidan (Tokyo), Atsushi Yoneyama (Tokyo) and Irisawa Gentaro (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mirror swing actuator assembly for an optical path folding element (OPFE) for compact folding camera modules comprises an exit aperture for outputting folded light rays, and an incoming aperture for receiving incoming light rays, wherein a distance between a top lens of a lens actuator and an end of the optical path folding element is ...