ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,616, issued on June 23, was assigned to AAC Optics (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. (Suzhou, China).

"Camera optical lens comprising first to sixth lenses" was invented by Hongyu Wang (Suzhou, China) and Shunda Zhou (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens having a negative refractive power; a second lens having a positive refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens having a negative refractive power; a fifth lens having a positive refractive power; a sixth lens having a positi...