ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,055, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co. Ltd. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Verification method for a panoramic lens focusing workstation" was invented by Ti Wu (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Chia Hsun Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of verifying a focusing operation of a panoramic lens performs a focusing test on the panoramic lens including aligning a focus adjusting ring and a calliper on a panoramic lens focusing workstation. If the focus adjusting ring and the calliper are aligned, a focal length adjusting test is executed for the panoramic lens. A focalizer is ...