ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,911, issued on May 27, was assigned to Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co. Ltd. (Fujian, China).

"Optical imaging lens" was invented by Ta-Cheng Fan (Taichung, Taiwan), Jiali Lian (Fujian, China) and Qi Liu (Fujian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element to a seventh lens element. The first lens element, the fifth lens element and the sixth lens element are made of plastic. The optical axis region of the image-side surface of the second lens element is convex, the optical axis region of the image-side surface of the third lens element is convex, the optical axis region of the obj...