ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,730, issued on July 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Lens assembly, camera, and electronic device" was invented by Weichih Lin (Dongguan, China), Haishui Ye (Shanghai) and Hong Ge (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens assembly and an electronic device including the same are provided. The lens assembly includes a lens group. A lens that is in the lens group and that is close to an object side has a convex surface, and the convex surface protrudes from a shoulder of a lens tube. A head of the lens assembly may be reduced without affecting a maximum field of view of the lens assembly, so tha...