US Patent Issued to JAHWA electronics on June 16 for "Actuator for camera" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,656, issued on June 16, was assigned to JAHWA electronics Co. Ltd. (Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea).

"Actuator for camera" was invented by Jae Yong Go (Seoul, South Korea) and Kyoung Yong Lee (Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator for cameras includes a carrier having a lens attached thereto and movable along an optical axis, a housing enclosing the carrier, at least one magnet mounted on the carrier and having k magnetic poles where k is a natural number equal to or larger than one, coils facing the magnet and disposed anterior or posterior along the optical axis, a Hall sensor assembly having m H...