ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,361, issued on July 14, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Aperture module and camera module including the same" was invented by Kyung Hun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jae Hyung Han (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aperture module includes a base; a rotor rotatably disposed with respect to the base; a plurality of blades interlockable with the rotor rotating to form incidence holes of various sizes; a rolling portion, including a plurality of rolling balls, disposed between the base and the rotor; and an aperture driver including a magnet portion disposed on one of ...