ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,715, issued on July 21, was assigned to SHENZHEN METALENX TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical system and optical camera working at far-infrared waveband" was invented by Chunyu Wang (Shenzhen, China), Heshan Lin (Shenzhen, China), Xiang Li (Shenzhen, China), Zhenyu Yang (Shenzhen, China), Chenglong Hao (Shenzhen, China), Fengze Tan (Shenzhen, China) and Jian Zhu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system and an optical camera working at a far-infrared waveband are provided, the optical system along the optical axis from the objection side to the image side includes: a metalens and a spherical lens; t...