ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,285, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Jiangsu, China).

"Large-field of view, high-resolution broadband objective lens" was invented by Guohua Shi (Suzhou, China), Xin Xu (Suzhou, China), Yi He (Suzhou, China), Xin Zhang (Suzhou, China) and Jixiang Wang (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A large-field of view, high-resolution broadband objective lens, which comprises nineteen spherical lenses that are arranged on the same optical axis. The nineteen lenses sequentially comprise, from an object side to an image side: a first lens, a seco...