ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,831, issued on April 21, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Folded lens system" was invented by Tae Yeon Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yong Joo Jo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jae Hyuk Huh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Do Hyeong Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A folded lens system includes a lens module including a plurality of lenses, an image sensor having an imaging plane, and a first reflection module disposed between the lens module and the image sensor and configured to change a path of light passing through the lens module a plurality of times. The light passing th...