ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,690, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AAC OPTICS (CHANGZHOU) Co. LTD. (Changzhou, China).

"Camera optical lens" was invented by Minyi Xu (Changzhou, China) and Shunda Zhou (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a camera optical lens including seven lenses. The seven lenses comprise: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. n1 denotes a refractive index of the first lens, d6 denotes a distance on-axis between an image side surface of the third lens and an object side surface of the fourth lens, TTL denotes a total track length, FOV denotes a field ...