ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,246, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to LARGAN PRECISION Co. LTD. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Optical path folding element, imaging lens module and electronic device" was invented by Ssu-Hsin Liu (Taichung City, Taiwan), Chen Wei Fan (Taichung City, Taiwan), Chien-Hsun Wu (Taichung City, Taiwan), Wen-Yu Tsai (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Ming-Ta Chou (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical path folding element includes a main body, a light absorption film layer and a matte structure. The main body has optical surface including an incident surface, a reflective surface and an emitting surface. A light enters into ...