ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,656, issued on March 18, was assigned to LARGAN PRECISION Co. LTD. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Light-folding element for camera module, camera module and electronic device" was invented by Min-Chun Liao (Taichung, Taiwan), Lin An Chang (Taichung, Taiwan), Ming-Ta Chou (Taichung, Taiwan), Jyun-Jia Cheng (Taichung, Taiwan), Cheng-Feng Lin (Taichung, Taiwan) and Ming-Shun Chang (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-folding element includes an object-side surface, an image-side surface, a reflection surface and a connection surface. The reflection surface is configured to reflect imaging light passing through the object-side...