ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,967, issued on May 27, 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: "An aperture module including: a base defining a central opening; a rotation plate rotatably seated on the base about an optical axis; an aperture driver coupled with the rotation plate to rotate the rotation plate according to an input electrical signal; and a plurality of blades disposed inside the rotation plate and interlocking with the rotation of the rotation plate to form an incident hole of varia...