ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,857, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Camera module" was invented by Taewon Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sanghun Han (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaehyuk Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module is provided. The camera module includes a housing including an inner space; a reflection module accommodated in the inner space; and a lens module disposed to allow light of which a path has been changed by the reflection module to pass through, wherein the reflection module includes: a reflection member configured to change a path of incident ligh...