US Patent Issued to Samsung Electro-Mechanics on July 21 for "Driving apparatus for camera and camera module including driving apparatus for camera" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,827, issued on July 21, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Driving apparatus for camera and camera module including driving apparatus for camera" was invented by Dooseub Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sanghyun Ji (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ju Ho Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Donghoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Dohwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving apparatus for a camera includes a first frame including a first ball guide extending in a first direction transverse to an optical axis; a second frame including a second ball guide corresponding to the first ba...