ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,779, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TDK TAIWAN CORP. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Optical system" was invented by Chan-Jung Hsu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), I-Mei Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yi-Ho Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Shao-Chung Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Ichitai Moto (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chen-Chi Kuo (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Ying-Jen Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Ya-Hsiu Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Wei-Jhe Shen (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chao-Chang Hu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Che-Wei Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Sin-Jhong Song (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Shu-Shan Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Weng (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chao-Hsi Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical...