ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,262, issued on July 14, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Lens driving unit, and a camera module and an optical appliance including the same" was invented by Tae Bong Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Sung Guk Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide a lens driving unit including a base, a housing supported so as to be movable relative to the base, a magnet located on the housing, a pattern coil part including a pattern coil that is located opposite the magnet, the pattern coil part being located on the base, and a sensor part mounted to the pattern coil part for sensing a positi...