ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,908, issued on May 27, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Optical imaging system" was invented by Phil Ho Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical imaging system includes lenses sequentially disposed from an object side toward an imaging plane and including a refractive power in paraxial regions or edges of the paraxial regions. An object-side surface of a fifth lens of the lenses is planar in a paraxial region and the fifth lens includes a refractive power at an edge of the paraxial region."
The patent was filed on Sept. 8, 2023, under Application No. 18/463,692...