ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,948, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to AAC Optics (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. (Suzhou, China).

"Camera optical lens" was invented by Renlong Yu (Suzhou, China) and Shunda Zhou (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to the field of optical lenses and discloses a camera optical lens, including, in order from an objective surface to an image surface: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. The following relationship expressions are satisfied: 0.95less than equal tof4/fless than equal to1.40; 0.30less than equal tod11/d12less than equal to1....