ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,951, issued on July 1, was assigned to SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China) and ASIA OPTICAL Co. INC. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Wide-angle lens assembly" was invented by Yan-jie Syu (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a wide-angle lens assembly including, in an order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens element with negative refractive power, having an image-side surface being concave; a second lens element with negative refractive power, having an image-side surface being concave; a third lens element with negative refractive power; a fourth lens element with pos...