ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,235, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to LARGAN PRECISION Co. LTD. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Optical photographing lens assembly, image capturing unit and electronic device" was invented by Yu Jui Lin (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Tzu-Chieh Kuo (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical 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 through a seventh lens element. Each of the seven lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side....