ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,555, issued on March 17, was assigned to LARGAN PRECISION Co. LTD. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Photographing lens assembly, image capturing unit and electronic device" was invented by Kuan-Ting Yeh (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Cheng-Yu Tsai (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photographing lens assembly includes five 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 and a fifth lens element. Each of the five lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an ...