ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,387, issued on July 15, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Camera module" was invented by Jae Hyuk Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soo Cheol Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byung Woo Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Young Bok Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jong Woo Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jung Seok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes a housing, a movable body configured to move in a direction of an optical axis of the housing; a reinforcing member formed integrally on one surface of the movable body, and configured to increase a rigidity of the mo...