ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,450, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co. Ltd. (Fujian, China).

"Optical imaging lens" was invented by Huabin Liao (Fujian, China), Chuanbo Dong (Fujian, China), Wei-Jeh Kao (Taichung, Taiwan) and Hung-Chien Hsieh (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element to an eighth lens element and each lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface. The second lens element has negative refracting power, the third lens element has negative refracting power and a periphery region of the object-side surface of the third lens element i...