ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,742, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Wide-field imaging lens and optical image capturing device for electronic mobile devices" was invented by Stepan Evgenievich Ivanov (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) and Viktoria Sergeevna Kaidarakova (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wide-field imaging lens and an optical image capturing device for an electronic mobile device are provided. In the wide-field imaging lens, an aperture stop, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, and a fifth lens element may be sequentially located and optica...