ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,775, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Voice coil motor and lens barrel" was invented by Azusa Muto (Tokyo) and Kazutoshi Usui (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a small-sized voice coil motor, the voice coil motor includes a first yoke and a second yoke each having a length in a first direction, a third yoke that has a length in the first direction and is disposed between the first yoke and the second yoke, a first magnet disposed on the first yoke, a second magnet disposed on the second yoke, and a coil that is penetrated by the third yoke and is movable in the first direction by magnetic forces...