ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,166, issued on March 24, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Camera module including rotating first and second frames" was invented by Viatcheslav Smirnov (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module is provided. The camera module includes a housing, a fixed member fixedly disposed on the housing, a first frame rotatably disposed on the fixed member, a second frame rotatably disposed on the first frame, a lens barrel disposed on the second frame, a first driving unit including a first magnet disposed on one of the housing and the first frame and a first coil disposed ...