ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,428, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Lens unit and camera module" was invented by Akira Inaba (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroyuki Hirama (Kyoto, Japan), Yasushi Kato (Kyoto, Japan), Takayuki Suginome (Kyoto, Japan) and Yusuke Baba (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens unit that includes an optical element including at least a lens group in which a plurality of lenses are arranged along an optical axis; and a cylindrical lens barrel having an inner accommodation space for accommodating and holding the optical element, and the lens group includes a first lens located closest to the object side thereof...