US Patent Issued to ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 28 for "Optical image capturing system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,216, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Optical image capturing system" was invented by Yeong-Ming Chang (Taichung, Taiwan), Chien-Hsun Lai (Taichung, Taiwan) and Yao-Wei Liu (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. At least one lens among the first to the sixth lenses has positive refractive force. The seventh lens has negative refractive force...