ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,794, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to LARGAN PRECISION Co. LTD. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Light path folding element, camera module and electronic device" was invented by Ssu-Hsin Liu (Taichung City, Taiwan), Wei-Che Tung (Taichung City, Taiwan), Lin-An Chang (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Ming-Ta Chou (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light path folding element includes a first surface, a second surface, a first reflecting surface and a second reflecting surface. A light travels from the first surface into the light path folding element. The second surface is disposed relative to the first surface along a first di...