ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,533, issued on March 25, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Lens and optical imaging system" was invented by Jae Hyuk Huh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yong Joo Jo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Young Suk Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Phil Ho Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens, wherein a first profile in a first direction intersecting an optical axis and a second profile in a second direction intersecting the optical axis are different from each other, and a length of the first profile in the first direction is different from a length of the second profile in the secon...