ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,960, issued on May 27, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Camera module and mobile device" was invented by Kyoung Joong Min (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes a controller executing an anti-shock mode including a low power mode and a wakeup mode to alternately perform the low power mode and the wakeup mode when the anti-shock mode is enabled, and controlling a position of a lens based on a lens position detected during performing of the wakeup mode, a timer for generating an interrupt signal at predetermined wakeup time intervals and outputting the ...