ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,516, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Camera module" was invented by Viatcheslav Smirnov (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes a first housing, a cover member movably disposed in the first housing in an optical axis direction via a first elastic member, a lens holder disposed inside the first housing, a movable holder movably disposed inside the lens holder in an optical axis direction via a second elastic member and having a lens barrel, and a pop-up actuator including a driving magnet and a driving coil disposed facing each other...