ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,308, issued on March 3, was assigned to NEWMAX TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Lens module and component for lens module" was invented by Szu-Ying Liu (Taichung City, Taiwan), Wei-Lan Shih (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Jen-Chieh Su (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component for a lens module is selected from a group consisting of a lens barrel, an optical lens, a pressure ring, and a spacer ring. The component includes: a component surface, a flat region located on the component surface, and a microstructure region located on the component surface and adjacent to the flat region. Relative to the fla...