ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,123, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Self Electronics Co. Ltd. (Ningbo City, China).

"Fresnel lens and a lamp containing it" was invented by Zuping He (Ningbo, China), Xiaoyun Liu (Ningbo, China), Jun Yang (Ningbo, China), Sheng Zhang (Ningbo, China), Kai Xu (Ningbo, China), Jianguo Dong (Ningbo, China) and Huangfeng Pan (Ningbo, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Fresnel lens in a lens body, the lens body is provided with a light incident surface and a light exit surface opposite to each other along a first direction, and the light exit surfaces are adjacently arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first directio...