ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,049, issued on June 2, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Camera module" was invented by Dae Seob Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Cheong Hee Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jin Sheng Wang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hwan Soo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes: a lens barrel accommodating a lens; a forwardmost lens disposed closer to an object side than the lens; an energy generation unit configured to supply energy to the forwardmost lens; and an energy transfer member disposed in contact with the forwardmost lens and the energy generation unit, and c...