ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,568, issued on June 24, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Lens unit and camera module" was invented by Toru Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens unit including a lens group formed by aligning a plurality of lenses along an optical axis; and a lens barrel having a cylindrical shape and including an inner accommodation space for accommodating and holding the lens group, the lens group including a first lens located to be closest to an object side and a second lens adjacent to the first lens on an image side, the lens unit including an annular body that integrates the first lens and the second lens and...