US Patent Issued to Mitsumi Electric on July 21 for "Optical element driving device, camera module, and camera-mounted device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,763, issued on July 21, was assigned to Mitsumi Electric Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Optical element driving device, camera module, and camera-mounted device" was invented by Shun Suzuki (Tokyo) and Tomohiko Osaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element driving device includes: a holding part configured to hold an optical element; a housing part configured to house the holding part such that the holding part is movable in an optical path direction of the optical element; a driving part including a piezoelectric element configured to drive the holding part; an inductor configured to increase an input voltage to the piezoelectr...