ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,610, issued on June 23, was assigned to Taiwan ZMAX Optech Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Optical lens" was invented by Sheng-Tang Lai (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Wei-Ting Chiu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Yuan-Long Cai (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Chia-Chen Kung (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Cheng-Chien Hsieh (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical lens is provided, including a front lens group, a rear lens group, and an aperture. The front lens group includes a plurality of front lens elements sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side, and a second lens and a third lens in the plurality of fro...