ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,445, issued on March 11, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Camera module" was invented by Kyung Hun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jong Ho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes a lens unit including one or more lenses disposed in an optical axis direction; an image sensor on which light passing through the lens unit is incident; a first module including a first driving unit configured to move the lens unit in the optical axis direction; and a second module including a second driving unit configured to move the image sensor in a direction perpend...