ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,869, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to LARGAN PRECISION Co. LTD. (Taichung, Taiwan).
"Photographing optical system" was invented by Chun-Yen Chen (Taichung, Taiwan), Kuan-Ting Yeh (Taichung, Taiwan) and Tzu-Chieh Kuo (Taichung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photographing optical system includes eight lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and an eighth lens element. The eight lens elements each have an object-side surface facing toward ...