ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,270, issued on July 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical lens, camera module, and electronic device" was invented by Kaiyuan Zhang (Dongguan, China), Daniel Manssen (Munich), Yun Chiang Hsu (Dongguan, China) and Liuchang Xiao (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, an optical lens includes a plurality of lenses that are sequentially arranged from an object side of the optical lens to an image side of the optical lens. A first lens of the plurality of lenses is a lens bent towards the image side and has a negative focal power; and an object-side surface ...