ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,358, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and camera module for acquiring depth information" was invented by Chul Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyeong Jin Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed according to an embodiment is a method for controlling emitted light in a camera module which can acquire depth information. More particularly, disclosed is a camera module for controlling delay time of light emitted from each of light sources to determine the direction of light emitted from the light sources. A camera module according to an embodiment may control delay t...