ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,525, issued on March 25, was assigned to IMMERVISION INC. (Montreal).
"Miniature wide-angle imaging lens" was invented by Jocelyn Parent (Lavaltrie, Canada), Simon Thibault (Quebec, Canada), Patrice Roulet (Montreal), Hu Zhang (Montreal), Pascale Nini (Orford, Canada) and Pierre Konen (Saint-Bruno, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A miniature wide-angle imaging lens has a miniaturization ratio, of a total track length from the center of a first surface to a focal plane by an image circle diameter, with a value less than 3.0. The imaging lens includes, starting from an object side of the lens, a first group of at least three opt...