ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,401, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) Co. LTD. (Shenzhen City, Taiwan) and ASIA OPTICAL Co. INC. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Wide-angle lens assembly" was invented by Chien-Hung Chen (Taichung, Taiwan), Hsi-Ling Chang (Taichung, Taiwan) and Shu-Hung Lin (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wide-angle lens assembly includes a first, a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, a seventh, and an eighth lenses, all of which are orderly arranged from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first, fourth, fifth, seventh, and eighth lenses are with refractive power. The second, third, a...