ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,946, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Optical imaging system" was invented by Han Ul Youn (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ji Su Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Dong Hyuk Jang (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, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, an eighth lens, and a ninth lens, sequentially arranged from an object side toward an image plane, wherein the optical imaging system satisfies the following conditional express...