ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,165, issued on March 31, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Camera module and mobile terminal" was invented by Liang Li (Shenzhen, China), Shusheng Peng (Dongguan, China) and Chikuan Lin (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module and a mobile terminal including a base, and a lifting camera lens that may slide relative to the base. Protrusion and retraction of the camera lens of the camera module are implemented through sliding between the base and the lifting camera lens. In addition, the camera module further includes a drive apparatus for driving the lifting camera lens to rise o...