ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,116, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Lens module and electronic device" was invented by Yajun Niu (Shanghai), Haishui Ye (Shanghai) and Chiachun Chang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a lens module and an electronic device. The lens module includes an imaging lens group, a light filter, and an image sensor, the imaging lens group includes a plurality of lenses whose optical axes mutually overlap, the plurality of lenses include a liquid lens, a plastic lens, and a functional optical element, the functional optical element is a functional lens...