ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,056, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Imager module for a camera or a sensor" was invented by Andreas Moehrle (Stuttgart, Germany), Moritz Winkler (Waldbronn, Germany) and Nikolai Bauer (Moeglingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imager module for a camera or a sensor. The imager module includes a housing, a sensor carrier which is fixedly connected to the housing and on which an image sensor is arranged, an objective, and a holding element via which the objective is held and is aligned with respect to the image sensor. The holding element is arranged outside the housing and bridg...