ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,798, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Optical imaging system" was invented by Phil Ho Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea), In Gun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yong Joo Jo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Ga Young An (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially disposed in numerical order along an optical axis of the optical imaging system from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optica...