ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,296, issued on March 3, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Vehicular camera" was invented by Ken Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Koyo Usami (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masayuki Yoshie (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular camera includes a lens unit including a first cylindrical portion, lens disposed inside the first cylindrical portion, and a flange portion disposed outside the first cylindrical portion to extend outward with respect to an optical axis of the lens, a circuit board, an image capturing element disposed on the optical axis of the lens, a housing including a second tubula...