ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,972, issued on May 13, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Camera module and optical device" was invented by Kyung Won Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present invention relates to a camera module comprising: a housing; a lens barrel disposed in the housing; first and second elastic members coupled to the lens barrel; and a piezo motor including a column disposed between the first and second elastic members, wherein: the first and second elastic members press the column of the piezo motor; the lens barrel comprises a body part and a coupling part connected to the body ...