US Patent Issued to Samsung Electro-Mechanics on June 24 for "Imaging lens system and camera module" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,424, issued on June 24, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Imaging lens system and camera module" was invented by Kil Soo Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yong Joo Jo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging lens system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens sequentially disposed from an object-side, wherein 0.15greater thanBFL/TTL and 1.9 mmgreater thanBFLgreater than2.8 mm are satisfied, where BFL is a distance from an image-side surface of the eighth lens to an imaging plane a...