ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,548, issued on March 17.

"Optical lens assembly and photographing module" was invented by Chia-Wei Liao (Taichung City, Taiwan), Chun-Sheng Lee (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Chi-Chang Wang (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens with negative refractive power; a second lens with negative refractive power; a third lens with positive refractive power; a fourth lens with positive refractive power; a fifth lens with negative refractive power; a sixth lens with positive refractive power; wherein a distance from an object-side surfac...