ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,094, issued on April 14, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Camera module" was invented by Donghoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ju Ho Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sanghyun Ji (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes a lens barrel including a plurality of lenses, a case that accommodates the lens barrel, a sensor driver disposed in the case, and an image sensor mounted to the sensor driver, wherein, in an off state, a center of the image sensor is disposed in one direction with respect to an optical axis of the plurality of lenses."
The patent was fi...