ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,544, issued on June 10, 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: "A six-piece optical image capturing system is disclosed. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lenses along the optical axis include a first lens with refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; a fourth lens with refractive power; a fifth lens with refractive power, and a sixth len...