ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,331, issued on May 26, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Vehicular camera" was invented by Takao Takeshita (Tokyo), Yingchun Guan (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshihiro Ueno (Osaka, Japan), Shinkuro Fujino (Kyoto, Japan) and Masami Fukuhara (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular camera according to an aspect of an embodiment includes a substrate, a housing, and a conductive member. An imaging element is mounted on the substrate on. The housing has a first housing and a second housing made of metal. The housing accommodates the substrate in a space formed by the first housing and the se...