ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,549, issued on March 17, was assigned to GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL (XIAMEN) Co. LTD. (Xiamen, China).

"Optical Imaging lens" was invented by Jinhui Gong (Xiamen, China), Qingzhi Zhu (Xiamen, China), Songchao Huang (Xiamen, China) and Hung-Chien Hsieh (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical imaging lens includes first to seventh lens elements sequentially arranged along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, and each including an object-side surface facing the object side and allowing an imaging ray to pass through and an image-side surface facing the image side and allowing the imaging ray to pass thr...