ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,691, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Changzhou AAC Raytech Optronics Co. Ltd. (Changzhou City, China).

"Camera optical lens" was invented by Haichao Peng (Changzhou, China) and Shunda Zhou (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera optical lens includes a first lens having a negative refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, a fifth lens having a negative refractive power, and a sixth lens having a positive refractive power that are in order from an object side to an image side. The fourth lens ...