ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,024, issued on March 4, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Dyed lens and method of dyeing lens" was invented by Seong Chan Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ae Rim Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sang Hyun Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sang Hyeon Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hae Sung Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Choon Keun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens includes a light-transmitting portion and a light-shielding portion adjacent to at least a portion of the light-transmitting portion and integrated with the light-transmitting portion. The light-shielding portion ...