ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,134, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Optical system and camera module comprising same" was invented by Shoichi Yamazaki (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system disclosed to an embodiment of the invention includes first to seventh lenses disposed along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, an object-side surface of the first lens has a convex shape, and an object-side surface of the fifth lens has a convex shape, the object-side surface of the seventh lens has a concave shape, and the first lens satisfies the following equation: 0.28greater than...