US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 12 for "Camera module with electrostatic discharge protection" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,096, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Camera module with electrostatic discharge protection" was invented by Jingyu Huang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Liang Ching Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan), Tsung-Dar Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan), Alexander P. Wroblewski (San Francisco), Weifeng Pan (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Warwick Ka Kui Wong (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present document describes a camera module with electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection. In particular, the camera module includes a lightning rod structure, which guides an ESD current to a safe location (e.g., system ground) when a l...