US Patent Issued to Sharp Sensing Technology on June 17 for "Camera module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,543, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sharp Sensing Technology Corp. (Tenri, Japan).

"Camera module" was invented by Haruno Yoshida (Tenri, Japan), Akihiro Iida (Tenri, Japan) and Yoshihito Ishizue (Tenri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module comprises a first lens barrel holding a first lens group configured to receive object light; a second lens barrel holding a second lens group disposed in a traveling direction of the object light with respect to the first lens group; a lens driving unit configured to drive the second lens barrel in a first direction along a first optical axis of the second lens group; and a gui...