US Patent Issued to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION on Jan. 20 for "Photographing apparatus including lens module capable of extending and retracting relative to housing, and electronic device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,943, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Photographing apparatus including lens module capable of extending and retracting relative to housing, and electronic device" was invented by Jianguo Han (Dongguan, China) and Xin Li (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shooting apparatus includes a second housing movably disposed in a first housing and a lens module disposed in the second housing. The second housing and the first housing are provided with a first protrusion and a first spiral groove that fit each other. When a drive mechanism drives the second housing to move...