ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,156, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Lens moving apparatus" was invented by Sang Ok Park (Seoul, South Korea), Seong Min Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Jun Taek Lee (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide a lens moving apparatus including a housing for supporting a first magnet, a bobbin including a coil disposed on an outer surface thereof and inside the first magnet so as to move in the housing in a first direction parallel to an optical axis by electromagnetic interaction between the first magnet and the coil, and upper and lower elastic members, each of wh...