ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,267, issued on July 14, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Optical imaging system" was invented by Jin Hwa Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yong Joo Jo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Young Suk Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens including a concave object side surface, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens sequentially disposed from an object side toward an image side. The optical imaging system satisfies 0.7greater thanTL/fgreater than1.0 and F No.greater than2.1, where TL is a distance from...