ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,498, issued on July 28, was assigned to Changzhou AAC Raytech Optronics Co. Ltd. (Changzhou City, China).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lens, and discloses a camera optical lens, including 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 positive refractive power, a fifth...