ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,463, issued on April 29, was assigned to LARGAN PRECISION Co. LTD. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Photographing lens system, image capturing unit and electronic device" was invented by Kuan-Ting Yeh (Taichung, Taiwan) and Tzu-Chieh Kuo (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photographing lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path, a front lens group and a rear lens group. The front lens group includes four lens elements. The rear lens group includes four lens elements. A second lens element counted from the image side in the front lens group has negative refractive power. An image-side ...