ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,093, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Camera module" was invented by Young Hwan Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kum Kyung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Nam Ki Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ta Kyoung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jung Seok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Young Bok Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Dong Yeon Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes a housing; a plurality of movable lens modules disposed in an internal space of the housing and configured to be movable in an optical axis direction, each of the plurality of m...