ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,695, issued on June 23, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Camera module" was invented by Kyung Hun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soo Cheol Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Young Bok Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module including a lens module configured to move in one or more of an optical axis direction, a first axis direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, and a second axis direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction and the first axis direction, a housing configured to accommodate the lens module, a printed circuit board coupled ...