ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,345, issued on May 12, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Camera module" was invented by Young Hwan Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Su Kyeong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes a housing having an internal space, a carrier accommodated in the housing and being movable relative to the housing in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis, a ball member disposed between the housing and the carrier, a lens module accommodated in the carrier and movable in an optical axis direction relative to the carrier, an elastic unit connected to the carrier ...