ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,702, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag (Stockholm).
"Camera module" was invented by Kersten Kaiser (Rothenburg o. d. Tauber, Germany), Christoph Luckhardt (Rothenburg o. d. Tauber, Germany), Herbert Krug (Neustadt an der Aisch, Germany) and Heinz Sigler (Rothenburg o. d. Tauber, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module (10) for use in a household environment comprising plural household appliances is described. The camera module comprises: a camera (22); control circuitry (24) configured to control operation of the camera module (10) and to generate a data signal from images picked up by...