US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 2 for "Camera assemblies with a flanged lens module" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,509, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Camera assemblies with a flanged lens module" was invented by Zachary W. Birnbaum (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Nicholas D. Smyth (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Camera assemblies that include a lens module, a camera housing enclosing the lens module, and an actuator module coupled to the lens module. The lens module includes at least one lens element disposed along an optical axis and a lens barrel at least partially surrounding the at least one lens element. The lens barrel includes a flange that defines, at an intersection with the at least one len...