ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,004, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Camera actuator" was invented by Young Seop Moon (Seoul, South Korea), Jun Seok Oh (Seoul, South Korea) and Young Bae Jang (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera actuator according to an embodiment includes a moving part including a lens; and a driving part for moving the moving part in the optical axis direction; wherein the driving part includes: a circuit board; a sensing part disposed on the circuit board and sensing a position of the moving part; and a driver IC disposed on the circuit board and connected to the sensing part...