ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,732, issued on July 22, was assigned to GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL (XIAMEN) Co. LTD. (Fujian, China).

"Optical imaging lens" was invented by Hai Lin (Fujian, China), Songchao Huang (Fujian, China), Jiayuan Zhang (Fujian, China) and Hung-Chien Hsieh (Fujian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an optical imaging lens, including a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element, and an eighth lens element sequentially arranged along an optical axis from an object side to an image side. The first lens element has positi...