ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,152, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Optical system and camera module" was invented by Ju Young Shim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The optical system disclosed in an embodiment of the invention includes an image sensor; and first to seventh lenses aligned along an optical axis from the object toward the sensor, wherein a refractive power of the first lens is negative, and a composite refractive power of the second lens to the seventh lens is positive, at least one of the sixth lens and the seventh lens is made of a plastic material, each of the first to seventh lenses...