ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,294, issued on March 3, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Camera module" was invented by Chuel Jin Park (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 focusing unit accommodated in the housing, and configured to move in an optical axis direction and having a lens barrel therein; a stop caliber unit which has an aperture through which light incident to the lens barrel passes; and a stop adjusting unit connected to the stop caliber unit and configured to change a size of the aperture, wherein the stop caliber unit is c...