ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,236, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Optical system" was invented by Duk Keun Kwon (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 a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens sequentially arranged along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, wherein the first lens has a positive refractive power and has a convex object-side surface, the second lens has a negative refractive power and has a concave image-side surface, and at l...