ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,426, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Camera module" was invented by Jun Sup Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Young Bok Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Bo Sung Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Nam Ki Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes a housing, a lens barrel configured to be movable in an optical axis direction, a barrel holder coupled to the lens barrel and disposed inside of the housing, a lens barrel driving unit configured to drive the lens barrel in the optical axis direction, including a driving magnet and a driving coil, an...