US Patent Issued to Samsung Electro-Mechanics on March 17 for "Lens driving apparatus and camera module including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,588, issued on March 17, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Lens driving apparatus and camera module including the same" was invented by Jaeman Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sanghun Han (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens driving apparatus includes a lens barrel, a carrier configured to accommodate the lens barrel, a focusing unit configured to move the carrier in an optical axis direction, and an image stabilizer unit configured to move the lens barrel in the carrier in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, wherein the image stabilizer unit inc...