ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,168, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to LARGAN PRECISION Co. LTD. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Image capturing system lens assembly, imaging apparatus and electronic device" was invented by I-Chieh Chen (Taichung, Taiwan), Hsin-Hsuan Huang (Taichung, Taiwan) and I-Hsuan Chen (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing system lens assembly is disclosed, comprising seven lens elements, the seven lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, and a seventh lens element. ...