ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,107, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TAMRON Co. LTD. (Saitama, Japan).

"Lens system and program for controlling a touch display" was invented by Tomoharu Saito (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens system includes a lens optical system, a touch display, and at least one processor configured to control a part of a virtual screen to be displayed on the touch display in response to a user's scroll operation on the touch display, and controls the lens optical system such that a state of the lens optical system works with a part of the virtual screen to be displayed on the touch display."

The patent was filed on April ...