ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,704, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to JIANGXI LIANYI OPTICS Co. LTD. (Nanchang, China).

"Imaging lens, camera module and camera" was invented by Xuming Liu (Nanchang, China), Tian Zhang (Nanchang, China), Haojie Zeng (Nanchang, China) and Jiyong Zeng (Nanchang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an imaging lens, a camera module and a camera. Five lenses are adopted in the imaging lens, which from an object side to an imaging plane, are: a first lens having a negative refractive power, where a paraxial region of an object side surface of the first lens is concave; a second lens having a positive refractive power; a t...