ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,384, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TONG HSING ELECTRONIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Camera module, manufacturing method thereof, and manufacturing method of glass therefor" was invented by Xie-Zhe He (Taipei, Taiwan), Sin-Chun Li (Taipei, Taiwan), Chia-Min Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Kuan-Hsun Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes a camera lens and an alignment glass sheet. The camera lens includes a carrying frame, a sensor chip corresponding in position to the carrying frame, and at least one optical lens that is assembled to the carrying frame. The carrying frame has an alignment sl...