ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,198, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Camera module" was invented by Kangjin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes a cover; a housing having an inner space covered by the cover; a folded module including a reflective member reflecting incident light; a lens module including a plurality of lenses transferring, in a direction of an optical axis, light reflected from the reflective member through the inner space of the housing; an image sensor module including an image sensor sensing light transferred through the lens module, and a ...