ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,704, issued on July 21, was assigned to Changzhou AAC Raytech Optronics Co. Ltd. (Changzhou City, China).

"Camera optical lens" was invented by Shunda Zhou (Changzhou, China), Shijia Zhao (Changzhou, China), Zhen Huang (Changzhou, China) and Lu Pan (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses, and discloses a camera optical lens sequentially including seven lenses from an object-side to an image-side: a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, a third lens having negative refractive power, a fourth lens having positiv...