ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,057, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Vehicular camera" was invented by Ken Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhiro Abe (Tokyo) and Yoshiaki Sakuma (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular camera includes a cap having a barrel portion disposed to an outer circumference of a lens barrel and a second edge portion. At least a part of the second edge portion overlaps the circumference of the first lens and overlaps the first edge portion. Each of the plurality of protrusions is oriented from the barrel portion of the cap toward the optical axis, and protrudes alo...