US Patent Issued to IMMERVISION on Feb. 25 for "Method to design miniature lenses with on-purpose distortion" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,428, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to IMMERVISION INC. (Montreal).

"Method to design miniature lenses with on-purpose distortion" was invented by Patrice Roulet (Montreal), Pierre Konen (Saint-Bruno, Canada), Jocelyn Parent (Lavaltrie, Canada), Simon Thibault (Quebec City), Xavier Dallaire (Verdun, Canada) and Zhenfeng Zhuang (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to design miniature wide-angle and ultra-wide-angle lenses by using on-purpose distortion to have shorter focal length than usual for a given image sensor size and a desired image projection. This results in optical systems having miniaturization ratio, defined...