ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,434, issued on July 15, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Aperture module and camera module including the same" was invented by Jaewoo Jun (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed aperture module includes a base defining an opening; a rotation plate seated on the base and rotatable about an optical axis, and including rotation plate teeth disposed along an inner circumferential surface; an aperture driving portion coupled to the rotation plate to rotate the rotation plate in response to an input of an electrical signal; and a plurality of blades stacked in two stages...