ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,635, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Lens assembly" was invented by So Mi Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jae Hyuk Huh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Byung Hyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens assembly includes a lens barrel, a plurality of lenses disposed in the lens barrel and sequentially arranged along an optical axis, and a spacer disposed between two adjacent lenses among the plurality of lenses and comprising a hole formed in the spacer in an optical axis direction, wherein an inner surface of the spacer surrounding the hole formed in...