US Patent Issued to SL Mirrortech on June 23 for "Wiping apparatus for camera and control method therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,086, issued on June 23, was assigned to SL Mirrortech (Siheung-Si, South Korea).

"Wiping apparatus for camera and control method therefor" was invented by Yonghwan Kim (Siheung-si, South Korea), Yonghei Kim (Siheung-si, South Korea), Mingi Jung (Siheung-si, South Korea) and Yeongkook Cho (Siheung-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wiping apparatus for a camera includes a housing in which a driving part is configured to be mounted; a rotation part that rotates by being engaged with a worm gear, which is coupled to a first rotation axis of the driving part; a conversion part that converts a rotational motion into a linear...