ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,392, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Substrate with recesses for components placement" was invented by Himesh Patel (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera system may include a lens group having one or more lenses and a substrate assembly having an image sensor and one or more other components mounted to the image sensor. The lens group may be movable relative to the image sensor, e.g., to implement an autofocus function. The substrate may include one or more recesses so as to reduce the height of the substrate at the recesses relative to other parts of the substrate. The reces...