ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,665, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Lens assembly" was invented by Sung Yeon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens assembly includes a lens barrel having an outer diameter increasing from a subject side to an image side, and a ring member disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the lens barrel."
The patent was filed on Oct. 26, 2023, under Application No. 18/495,234.
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