ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,027, issued on March 4, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Optical lens assembly, camera unit and electronic device" was invented by Zhidong Yin (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical lens assembly includes: a diaphragm, a zoom lens group, a light deflecting assembly and a compensating lens group sequentially arranged along an optical axis and from an object side to an imaging plane. The optical axis comprises a first optical axis segment between the diaphragm and the light deflecting assembly, and a second optical axis segment between the light deflecting assembly and the compensating len...