ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,242, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to AAG 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. The camera optical lens includes from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies the following conditions: 1.00less than equal tod3/d1less than equal to3.00; 0.20less than equal toR3/R4less than equal to0.90; 1.00less than e...