ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,672, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co. Ltd. (Xiamen, China).

"Optical imaging lens" was invented by Chuanbo Dong (Xiamen, China), Hai Lin (Xiamen, China) and Jiayuan Zhang (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical imaging lens may include 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, an eighth lens element and a ninth lens element positioned in an order from an object side to an image side. Through designing concave and/or convex surfaces of the lens elements, the opt...