ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,591, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Camera module substrate designs" was invented by Angelo M. Alaimo (San Jose, Calif.), Wassim Ferose Habeeb Rakuman (Sammamish, Wash.), Bohan Hao (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ya-Wen Hsu (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Camera modules and associated electronic devices and systems are described. A camera module may include a set of housing elements that at least partially defines an interior cavity, a set of lens elements, an image sensor positioned within the interior cavity to receive light through the set of lens elements, and a substrate assembly. The...