US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 22 for "Electronic device including camera module" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,943, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Electronic device including camera module" was invented by Youngbok Yu (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include: a base defining at least a portion of a lower exterior of the camera module; a plurality of magnets disposed on the base about an optical axis; an auto focus (AF) coil disposed to surround the plurality of magnets while being spaced apart from the plurality of magnets by a predetermined distance; an AF carrier coupled to the AF coil a...