ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,115, issued on April 21, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Vehicular camera" was invented by Takeshi Harada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kouichi Kawamoto (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a vehicular camera. At least a part of a flange end surface of a flange portion of a lens unit faces an inner surface of a first shield. A second shield includes at least one contact portion disposed along the flange end surface of the flange portion from a second flange surface of the flange portion on at least one side in a plan view of the flange portion. At least a pa...