ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,113, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Lens assembly and electronic apparatus including the same" was invented by Hwanseon Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Haneung Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens assembly and an electronic apparatus having the lens assembly are disclosed. The disclosed lens assembly includes a plurality of lenses arranged from an object side to an image side, the image side being where an image sensor is located, and includes a first lens group having negative refractive power, a second lens group having positive refractiv...