ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,497, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Camera module" was invented by Janghun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Manseok Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jinhyeok Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes a housing; cover covering the housing and including a protrusion guide on a side wall of the cover; a folded module disposed in the housing and configured to reflect incident light; a lens module through which the reflected light passes disposed in the housing; an image sensor module mounted on the housing and configured to detect the l...