ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,232, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to National Central University (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Couple-in lens assembly" was invented by Jun-Yi Yu (Tainan City, Taiwan), Guan-Wei Huang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Wei-Chia Su (Changhua County, Taiwan), Wen-Kai Lin (Taichung City, Taiwan), Shao-Kui Zhou (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yuan-Yan Liang (Changhua County, Taiwan), Ching-Cherng Sun (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Wen-Hsin Sun (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Huai-Chih Chang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A couple-in lens assembly includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a sev...