ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,955, issued on May 27, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Camera module" was invented by Seung Hyeon Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Nam Ki Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yeun Ho Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Young Bok Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sung Hoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yoo Chang Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jae Hyuk Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes a housing accommodating a lens module, a driving unit including a magnet disposed on the lens module and a coil disposed to face the magnet, a yoke generating attractive force wit...