ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,388, issued on July 15, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Camera module" was invented by Sung Ryung Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Oh Byoung Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soo Cheol Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Byung Woo Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a camera module including a plurality of ball bearings to support the driving of a lens barrel at the time of compensating for unintended camera movement due to disturbance such as hand shake. The lens barrel may be driven in first and second directions, independently, by one driving force exerted ...