US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Aug. 12 for "Ultra-wide angle lens systems with external pupil" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,155, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Ultra-wide angle lens systems with external pupil" was invented by Wubin Pang (San Jose, Calif.), Yangyang Sun (San Jose, Calif.), Jinxin Fu (Fremont, Calif.) and Samarth Bhargava (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to an optical system having a lens system configured to have a wide field of view and high resolution. The optical system includes three or more lens groups with ability to combat optical aberrations and produce a pupil outside of the lens group. The lens system as an i...