ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,962, issued on July 7, was assigned to NEWMAX TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Optical lens assembly and photographing module" was invented by Chi-Chang Wang (Taichung City, Taiwan), Chun-Sheng Lee (Taichung City, Taiwan), Sian-Chih Ke (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Jian Wang (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens; wherein a distance from the object-side surface of the first lens to the image plane along the optical axis is TL, a half of a maximum field of view of the o...