ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,029, issued on March 4, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Optical imaging system" was invented by Jong Pil Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sot Eum Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Ji Su Lee (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, and a third lens disposed in order from an object side. The optical imaging system satisfies 1.2 mmgreater thanTTLgreater than2.0 mm and 0greater thanf3/fgreater than1.0, where TTL is a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to an imaging plane, f is a focal length of the optic...