ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,491, issued on June 10, was assigned to MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Vehicular camera and lens assembly" was invented by Matthew C. Sesti (Williamston, Mich.), Robert A. Devota (Durand, Mich.), Yuesheng Lu (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Steven V. Byrne (Goodrich, Mich.) and Joel S. Gibson (Linden, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular camera includes a camera housing having a front housing portion and a rear housing portion. The front housing portion includes a plurality of optical elements, a CMOS imager, and an imager printed circuit board. The CMOS imager is at a first side of the imager printed circuit bo...