ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,728, issued on July 22, was assigned to JIANGXI JINGCHAO OPTICAL Co. LTD. (Nanchang, China).

"Optical system, image acquisition module and electronic device" was invented by Han Xie (Nanchang, China) and Ming Li (Nanchang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The optical system includes, successively in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens having a negative refractive power, an image side surface of the first lens being concave near an optical axis; a second lens having a positive refractive power, an object side surface thereof being convex near the optical axis, an image side surface of the second lens being con...