ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,467, issued on March 17, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Continuous zoom camera apparatus" was invented by Jun Sup Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dong Yeon Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ah Hyeon Im (Suwon-si, South Korea), Joung Ho Son (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Se Hyeun Yun (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera apparatus including a housing; a first lens barrel and a second lens barrel movable in an optical axis direction; first magnet segment regions disposed on a first side of the first lens barrel and second magnet segment regions disposed on a second side of ...