US Patent Issued to Samsung Electro-Mechanics on July 14 for "Folded module and camera module including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,209, issued on July 14, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Folded module and camera module including the same" was invented by Hong Joo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Young Hwan Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A folded module includes a housing; a rotation holder supported, together with a reflection member, on the housing to be rotatable about a first axis; a first ball group, disposed between the housing and the rotation holder, comprising one rotation axis ball forming the first axis and two guide balls spaced apart from the rotation axis ball; and a first drivi...