US Patent Issued to OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES on Nov. 3 for "Compound lens" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,680, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Compound lens" was invented by Kuang Ju Wang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), I Lung Lu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Jau Jan Deng (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound lens includes six coaxially aligned lenses: (i) a first substrate, and a first lens and, in order of increasing distance therefrom, and on a same side thereof, (ii) a second lens, a second substrate, a third lens, a third substrate, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a fourth substrate and a sixth lens. The first lens and the fifth lens are negative lenses. The second le...