ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,142, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to LARGAN PRECISION Co. LTD. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Photographing optical lens assembly, image capturing unit and electronic device" was invented by Wei-Yu Chen (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photographing optical lens assembly includes, 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. The first lens element with refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. Each second, third, fourt...