ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,960, issued on June 3, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Lens assembly and camera module including the same" was invented by Yong Joo Jo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Do Hyeong Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Byung Hyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens assembly includes a plurality of lens arrays sequentially disposed from an object side toward an image side, wherein each lens array includes a plurality of lenses, and a plurality of lenses included in a lens array of the plurality of lens arrays, disposed to be closest to the image side have a length in a first axi...