ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,031, issued on March 4, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Lens assembly" was invented by Dong Shin Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ju Sung Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ho Sik Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sot Eum Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are lens assembly including a lens having a length in a first direction, perpendicular to an optical axis, shorter than a length in a second direction, perpendicular to both the optical axis and the first direction, on a plane perpendicular to the optical axis, and a lens barrel accommodating the lens, and having a...