ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,039, issued on June 3, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Image capturing lens system" was invented by Kyu Min Chae (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sot Eum Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing lens system includes a first lens having negative refractive power, a second lens having positive refractive power while having a convex object-side surface, a third lens having positive refractive power, a fourth lens having positive refractive power, a fifth lens having negative refractive power with a concave object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, and...