ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,165, issued on March 24, was assigned to TDK TAIWAN CORP. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Optical element driving mechanism" was invented by Ya-Hsiu Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yi-Ho Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Ying-Jen Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element driving mechanism used for driving an optical element is provided. The optical element driving mechanism includes a fixed portion and a support assembly. The optical element is movable in a first dimension relative to the fixed portion through the support assembly."

The patent was filed on Dec. 27, 2022, under Application No. 18/089,075.

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