ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,952, issued on July 7, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Lens assembly" was invented by Yeo Ok Jeon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seok Hwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Ho Jae Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens assembly is provided. The lens assembly includes a lens barrel, at least two lenses arranged inside the lens barrel along an optical axis direction, and a spacer provided between the at least two lenses, wherein the spacer includes a first alignment portion and a second alignment portion seated in respective protrusions or recesses provided on a rib of the f...