ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,347, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Himax Technologies Ltd. (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Wide-angle optical lens system" was invented by Yu-Ching Cheng (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wide-angle optical lens system includes a negative-powered first lens group, a positive-powered second lens group and a positive-powered third lens group arranged in an order from an object side to an image side."

The patent was filed on Dec. 1, 2022, under Application No. 18/073,454.

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