US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on May 27 for "Vehicular camera assembly process using laser etching for active focusing after lens is secured relative to imager" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,940, issued on May 27, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular camera assembly process using laser etching for active focusing after lens is secured relative to imager" was invented by Jeffrey A. White (Howell, Mich.) and Zhongyao Liu (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular camera system includes a vehicular camera including a camera housing and an imager printed circuit board (imager PCB). The camera housing includes a first portion and a second portion joined with the first portion. The first portion includes a lens barrel accommodating a lens that includes a plurality of lens optics...