ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,677, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Vehicular camera" was invented by Shingo Kameyama (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular camera includes a groove portion disposed between a flange portion of a lens unit and a housing protruding portion of a housing and including a bottom surface, first and second side surfaces. The bottom surface of the groove portion has a part of the first flange protruding surface of the flange protruding portion. The first side surface of the groove portion has a part of the flange end surface of the flange portion. The second sid...