ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,784, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Protective assembly and imaging equipment set" was invented by Chi-Kuang Sun (Taipei, Taiwan), Pei-Jhe Wu (Taipei, Taiwan), Ying-Ting Huang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hsiao-Chieh Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protective assembly and an imaging equipment set are provided. The protective assembly is used to accommodate an imaging lens, and includes a housing, a transparent partition, and an adhesive member. The housing includes a tube body segment and a bottom segment that is connected to the tube body segment. A curved portion is f...