ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,941, issued on May 27, was assigned to NINGBO SUNNY OPOTECH Co. LTD (Zhejiang, China).

"Periscopic camera module and electronic device" was invented by Bojie Zhao (Zhejiang, China), Lifeng Yao (Zhejiang, China), Dongli Yuan (Zhejiang, China), Sisi Yu (Zhejiang, China) and Zhen Huang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A periscopic camera module, including: a first reflective element including a first reflective surface and used to reflect incident light and make the incident light longitudinally turn; an optical lens used to receive the light reflected by the first reflective element and output an imageable light beam to ...