ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,861, issued on July 1, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Camera module and portable terminal" was invented by Byung Hyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), So Mi Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jae Hyuk Huh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yong Joo Jo (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes a lens module including a plurality of lenses having refractive power, a first optical path folding unit disposed on the object side of the lens module and configured to refract or reflect incident light in an optical axis direction of the lens module. Among the lenses constitutin...