US Patent Issued to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE on July 1 for "Imaging optical system and device" (Japanese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,858, issued on July 1, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Imaging optical system and device" was invented by Shinichi Arita (Tokyo) and Xianchang Hou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system includes: a first lens and a second lens, each has a negative refractive power and a concave image-side surface; a third lens of a positive refractive power having a concave image-side surface; a fourth lens of a positive refractive power having a convex image-side surface; a fifth lens of a positive refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a sixth lens...