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. 12,663,615, issued on June 23, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Optical imaging system" was invented by Jae Hyuk Huh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byung Hyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and So Mi Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical imaging system is provided. The optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens disposed in order from an object side to an imaging side. The first lens has positive refractive power, while the second lens has negative refractive power. TTLless than10.2 mm, and TTL/(2xIMG HT)less tha...