ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,280, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Camera module" was invented by Jun Sup Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chuel Jin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Young Bok Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes a lens module including one or more lenses; a fixing frame having a rectangular cross-section formed along a circumference of the lens module; a first driver, disposed along a first side surface of the fixing frame, configured to provide a first driving force in a first direction intersecting an optical axis of the lenses; and a cam...