ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,697, issued on July 21, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Optical system and camera module comprising same" was invented by Eun Sung Seo (Seoul, South Korea) and Ji Sung Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system disclosed to an embodiment of the invention includes first and second lens groups sequentially arranged along an optical axis from an object side to a sensor direction and including at least one lens, respectively, and a focal length sign of the first lens group and a focal length sign of the second lens group are opposite to each other and satisfy the following equation...