ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,552, issued on March 17, was assigned to Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co. Ltd. (Xiamen, China).

"Optical imaging lens" was invented by Qingzhi Zhu (Xiamen, China), Songchao Huang (Xiamen, China), Meiting He (Xiamen, China) and Hung-Chien Hsieh (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element to a second lens element. The first lens element to the second lens element each having an object-side surface facing toward the object side and allowing imaging rays to pass through as well as an image-side surface facing toward the image side and allowing the imaging rays to pass...