ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,723, issued on July 22, was assigned to AAC Optics (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. (Suzhou, China).
"Camera optical lens" was invented by Koji Nitta (Osaka, Japan) and Yi Ji (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a camera optical lens with seven-piece lenses including, from an object side to an image side in sequence, a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, a fifth lens having a negative refractive power, a sixth lens having a positive refractive power...