ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,976, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL (XIAMEN) Co. LTD. (Xiamen, China).
"Optical imaging lens" was invented by Jiayuan Zhang (Fujian, China), Huabin Liao (Fujian, China), Hai Lin (Fujian, China) and Hung-Chien Hsieh (Fujian, 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, and an eighth lens element disposed in sequence from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens element has positive refracting po...