ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,589, issued on March 17, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).
"Camera module" was invented by Zhihao Niu (Guangdong, China), Dongcun Cheng (Guangdong, China), Wei Wang (Guangdong, China) and Dong Xie (Guangdong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a camera module including a bracket, where the bracket is provided with a groove; a drive member, where the drive member is disposed on a first side of the bracket; a transmission member, where the transmission member is disposed on an inner wall of the groove, and the transmission member is electrically connected to the drive m...