ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,698, issued on July 21, was assigned to LARGAN PRECISION Co. LTD. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Optical imaging lens assembly, image capturing unit and electronic device" was invented by Po-Wei Chen (Taichung City, Taiwan), Chun-Yen Chen (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Cheng-Yu Tsai (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical imaging lens assembly includes seven lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. Each of ...