ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,229, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Reflective module and camera module including reflective module" was invented by Jung Woo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Nam Ki Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Young Hwan Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soo Cheol Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kum Kyung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes a first lens module including one or more lenses disposed along a first optical axis; and a reflective module into which light emitted from the first lens module is incident, wherein the reflective module inc...