ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,119, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Zhejiang Sunny Optics Co. Ltd (Yuyao City, China).

"Camera module" was invented by Ren Ding (Yuyao City, China), Qionghua Zhou (Yuyao City, China), Zeguang Wang (Yuyao City, China), Hui Li (Yuyao City, China), Yazhu Song (Yuyao City, China), Jiadong Zhu (Yuyao City, China), Xiancui Ding (Yuyao City, China), Lin Huang (Yuyao City, China), Liefeng Zhao (Yuyao City, China) and Fujian Dai (Yuyao City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module. The camera module includes a lens barrel, and a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens...