ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,608, issued on April 8, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Folded module and camera module including folded module" was invented by Young Hwan Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Nam Ki Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Young Bok Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soon Seok Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jae Won Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes a housing, a reflective member positioned in the housing and changing a direction of light to a direction of an optical axis, a carrier carrying the reflective member and rotatable about a first axis with respect t...