US Patent Issued to NIPPON CHEMI-CON on March 17 for "Camera module, control method therefor, and manufacturing method therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,175, issued on March 17, was assigned to NIPPON CHEMI-CON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Camera module, control method therefor, and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Katsuya Tamaki (Tokyo), Masahiro Komiya (Tokyo) and Naohisa Shibata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes, for example, a light source, a ToF sensor configured to detect reflected light from a subject that receives light from the light source, and a heat conduction member that conducts heat of the light source to the ToF sensor."

The patent was filed on Jan. 31, 2024, under Application No. 18/427,991.

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