ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,777, issued on April 15.

"Photographing module" was invented by Ching-Yun Huang (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photographing module includes a lens barrel, an optical lens assembly, an image sensor, the optical lens assembly includes, in order from the object side to the image side: a first lens with negative refractive power, a second lens with negative refractive power, a third lens with positive refractive power, a stop, a fourth lens with positive refractive power, a fifth lens with negative refractive power, a sixth lens with positive refractive power, a seventh lens with positive refractive power, wherein a d...