US Patent Issued to Samsung Electro-Mechanics on Aug. 5 for "Prism for optical imaging system having protrusion on side surfaces" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,530, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Prism for optical imaging system having protrusion on side surfaces" was invented by Sot Eum Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Ho Sik Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prism for an optical imaging includes an incident surface on which light is incident; an emission surface from which light is emitted; a reflective surface configured to reflect light incident to the incident surface to the emission surface; and a discontinuous portion disposed at one or both of a boundary portion between the incident surface and t...