ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,802, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NINGBO SUNNY OPOTECH Co. LTD. (Ningbo, China).

"Retractable camera module and electronic device" was invented by Linmin Ye (Ningbo, China), Tianyuan Guan (Ningbo, China), Yanning He (Ningbo, China) and Zhewen Mei (Ningbo, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a retractable camera module and an electronic device, wherein a lens of the retractable camera module is retractable relative to a photosensitive chip thereof, so as to be switched between a working state and a non-working state, wherein in the working state, the lens of the retractable camera module is stretched out for imagi...