ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,696, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL (XIAMEN) Co. LTD. (Xiamen, China).
"Optical imaging lens" was invented by Jia-Sin Jhang (Xiamen, China), Maozong Lin (Xiamen, China) and Zhao Wang (Xiamen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical imaging lens including a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element, an eighth lens element, and a ninth lens element sequentially along an optical axis from an object side to an image side is provided. The first lens element has positive refracting power. A ...