ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,258, issued on July 14, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Camera module" was invented by Dong Wook Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Myoung Jin An (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of a camera module comprises: a lens portion; a front body on which the lens portion is mounted; a substrate portion arranged to be spaced from the lens portion in a first direction and coupled to the front body; an image sensor arranged on the substrate portion and provided to face the lens portion; a first fastener, one side of which is inserted into the front body such that at least a part of the subst...