US Patent Issued to Samsung Electro-Mechanics on June 23 for "Optical imaging system" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,612, issued on June 23, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Optical imaging system" was invented by Kil Soo Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yong Joo Jo (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, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially disposed in ascending numerical order along an optical axis from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of an image sensor, wherein TTL/(2*IMG HT)less than equal to0.67 is satisfied, where TTL is a distance alo...