ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,166, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to LARGAN PRECISION Co. LTD. (Taichung, Taiwan).
"Imaging optical lens system, image capturing unit and electronic device" was invented by Yu Jui Lin (Taichung, Taiwan) and Tzu-Chieh Kuo (Taichung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging optical lens system includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element and an eighth lens element, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path. The first lens element has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxia...