ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,683, issued on June 30, was assigned to LARGAN PRECISION Co. LTD. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Photographing lens assembly, image capturing unit and electronic device" was invented by Yu Jui Lin (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Yu-Han Shih (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photographing 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. The first lens element has negative refractive power. T...