ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,123, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co. Ltd. (Fujian, China).

"Optical imaging lens" was invented by Jiayuan Zhang (Fujian, China), Wei-Jeh Kao (Taichung, Taiwan) and Chuanbo Dong (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 ninth lens element from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The second lens element has negative refracting power or the third lens element has positive refracting power, a periphery region of the image-side surface of the second lens element is concave, the fourth lens element has negative refrac...