ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,040, issued on June 3, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Optical imaging system" was invented by Sang Hyun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jae Hyuk Huh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ju Hwa Son (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jin Hwa Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yong Joo Jo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Phil Ho Jung (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, and a sixth lens disposed in order from an object side. The first lens has refractive power having a sign different from a sign of refra...