ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,569, issued on May 19, was assigned to PIXART IMAGING INC. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Cubic camera and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Jen-Chuan Chen (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Chi-Chih Shen (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Wei-Chung Wang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Yu-Chiao Peng (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cubic camera includes a camera lens, a sensor package component assembled to the camera lens, and a compound body. The camera lens includes a holder and a lens. The holder is opaque and has a top surface, a bottom surface, and a surrounding lateral surface that is connected to the top surface and the bottom surface. The holde...