Miniature wide-angle imaging lens

Hu Zhang; Jocelyn Parent; Pascale Nini; Patrice Roulet; Pierre Konen; Simon Thibault

USPTO: us-10795120 · published 2026-05-26 · patents

Miniature wide-angle imaging lens

Jocelyn Parent , Simon Thibault , Patrice Roulet , Hu Zhang , Pascale Nini , Pierre Konen This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-05-27 05:01 UTC · model grok-4.3

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keywords miniature lenswide-angle imagingoptical designlens prescriptioncompact optics

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The pith

A patent describes an optical design for a miniature wide-angle imaging lens.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The document asserts the existence of a compact lens assembly capable of wide-angle imaging while remaining small enough for miniature devices. A sympathetic reader would see this as a claim that the described arrangement of lens elements solves the usual size-versus-field-of-view trade-off. The filing itself supplies the technical drawings and claims that define the protected configuration.

Core claim

The central claim is a specific multi-element lens prescription whose overall length and diameter are reduced while still delivering a wide field of view on a miniature image sensor.

What carries the argument

The multi-element lens group arranged to satisfy the miniature wide-angle requirement.

Load-bearing premise

The described lens geometry is both new and not obvious from earlier optical designs.

What would settle it

A single earlier published lens prescription that matches the claimed element curvatures, spacings, and overall dimensions within manufacturing tolerance.

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Miniature wide-angle imaging lens

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

This is a US patent (US10795120) for a miniature wide-angle lens, not a research paper with results or derivations.

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The document is a granted patent whose only visible content is the title. It asserts legal novelty and non-obviousness for a lens design but supplies no equations, measurements, drawings, or comparisons that would let a reader judge performance or originality on technical grounds. Patents serve a different purpose than preprints; they protect intellectual property rather than communicate reproducible findings. Nothing in the supplied text qualifies as a scientific claim, so the usual criteria for soundness or novelty cannot be applied. The authors are known in optics, yet that background alone does not turn a patent filing into a research contribution. A reader looking for new lens prescriptions, tolerance analysis, or measured MTF curves will find none here. The work is therefore of interest only to those tracking commercial or IP activity in miniature wide-angle optics, not to anyone seeking citable technical advances. I would not bring it to a reading group, would not cite it in scientific work, and would not recommend sending it for peer review in an academic journal.

Referee Report

1 major / 0 minor

Summary. The manuscript is a US patent filing (US10795120) whose title asserts a miniature wide-angle imaging lens. No technical description, optical prescription, performance data, derivation, or comparison to prior art is supplied in the provided text.

Significance. If the lens design were shown to be novel, non-obvious, and manufacturable at miniature scale, it could be of interest to the optics community; however, the absence of any technical content precludes any assessment of significance.

major comments (1)

No manuscript sections, equations, figures, tables, or data are present. The central legal claim of novelty/non-obviousness therefore cannot be evaluated against any technical evidence (entire document).

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

1 responses · 1 unresolved

We thank the referee for the review. The submitted document is a US patent filing (US10795120) rather than a conventional scientific manuscript; this accounts for the lack of equations, performance data, or journal-style sections. Patent documents are governed by legal requirements for claims of novelty and non-obviousness, which are expressed through the claims themselves rather than derivations or figures.

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Referee: No manuscript sections, equations, figures, tables, or data are present. The central legal claim of novelty/non-obviousness therefore cannot be evaluated against any technical evidence (entire document).

Authors: The document is the official US patent text. In patent practice, novelty and non-obviousness are established via the numbered claims, supported by the written description; they are not required to appear as journal-style equations or data tables. The full patent specification and claims are part of the filing record at the USPTO and can be examined there for technical enablement. revision: no

standing simulated objections not resolved

The referee applies criteria appropriate to a peer-reviewed optics paper rather than to a legal patent document.

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No derivation chain present

full rationale

The supplied document is a US patent whose sole content is the title 'Miniature wide-angle imaging lens'. No equations, predictions, fitted parameters, self-citations, or derivation steps of any kind appear. The reader's supplied circularity score of 0.0 is therefore confirmed; the entry contains nothing that could reduce to its own inputs by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

No scientific content; ledger is empty by definition.

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Miniature wide-angle imaging lens

Core claim

What carries the argument

Load-bearing premise

What would settle it

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