Apple’s iPhone 15 Targeted by Patent Suit Hours Into Preorders

Preorders for Apple Inc.’s four iPhone 15 models began Friday, and before noon the tech giant was hit with a lawsuit seeking royalties for alleged infringement of a patent for an ultra-wide lens.

ImmerVision Inc., a private Canadian tech company, already has three cases pending in Delaware federal court accusing a range of iPhone models and the iPad Pro 2021 of infringing one of two patents related to the lenses on Apple’s flagship devices.

When it sued Apple in November 2021, ImmerVision alleged that versions of the iPhone 11, 12, and 13 smartphone models and the iPad 2021 ...