US Patent Issued to Magna Electronics on May 19 for "Vehicular camera with lens barrel attached to imager circuit board" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,568, issued on May 19, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular camera with lens barrel attached to imager circuit board" was invented by Rene Dreiocker (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Jonathan D. Conger (Huntington Woods, Mich.), Jose Luis Zamudio Cabral (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Steven V. Byrne (Goodrich, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular camera includes an imager printed circuit board (PCB) having an imager disposed at a first side of the imager PCB. A metal lens barrel accommodates a lens having a plurality of lens optics disposed within the metal lens barrel between an inner end and an ...