US Patent Issued to Samsung Electro-Mechanics on July 7 for "Imaging lens system" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,963, issued on July 7, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Imaging lens system" was invented by Hyuk Joo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyu Min Chae (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hwan Soo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging lens system includes: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens, sequentially disposed from an object side. The third lens has a refractive index temperature coefficient of 2.2 to 3.5 [10-6/deg C.], and 0greater thanf34*0.8greater thanf, where f is a focal length of the imaging lens ...