ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,709, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Accelink Technologies Co. Ltd. (Wuhan, China) and China Information Communication Technologies Group Corp. (Wuhan, China).

"Lens clamping device" was invented by Hualin Yin (Wuhan, China), Shijie Chu (Wuhan, China), Shuwei Tan (Wuhan, China) and Yuan Zhou (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens clamping device, relating to the field of optical communication devices, comprises: a base; a sliding mechanism slidably connected with the base and movable relative to the base along a first direction; a transmission mechanism connected with the sliding mechanism and having a first and a sec...