ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,656, issued on May 26, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Optical imaging system" was invented by Jong Pil Kim (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, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens sequentially disposed from an object side to an imaging side. In the optical imaging system, the first lens has positive refractive power and has a concave object-side surface, the fourth lens has negative refractive power, and the fifth lens has a convex image-side surf...