ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,433, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"In-vehicle camera" was invented by Ken Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhiro Abe (Tokyo) and Masayuki Yoshie (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle camera includes a lens barrel including at least one lens and being tubular, an imaging element disposed on the circuit board and on an optical axis of the at least one lens, a ring member made of a first resin having a first light transmittance, and disposed to protrude in a direction away from the optical axis over an entire periphery of the lens barrel, and a housin...