ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,213, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Feng Chia University (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Lens assembly with high uniform rectangular focused halo and method of adjusting halo size using the same" was invented by Shih Hsin Ma (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Jing Ting Wu (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens assembly with a high uniform rectangular focused halo comprises: a first lens and an adjacent second lens. The first lens includes a first incident surface, a first non-spherical surface, and a first convex array emitting surface. The first incident surface contains a light source focus, and the first convex array em...