ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,429, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Imaging lens unit and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Takaharu Fujii (Kyoto, Japan), Kousuke Sugiki (Kyoto, Japan), Satoru Kihara (Kyoto, Japan), Takashi Saotome (Kyoto, Japan) and Daisuke Kanai (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging lens unit includes a resin lens barrel and a plurality of lenses incorporated in the lens barrel. The lens barrel has a lens barrel body and a box-shaped part. A plurality of lens receiving parts are arranged at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction of the lens barrel body and protrude fro...