ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,535, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Camera module" was invented by Jaeman Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jungseok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sunghoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byungwoo Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangjoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Doseop Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Byung Gi An (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes a carrier, disposed in an internal space of a housing, configured to receive a lens barrel, and having an external rolling portion corresponding to the internal rolling portion on an exte...