ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,343, issued on July 15, was assigned to LARGAN PRECISION Co. LTD. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Photographing lens assembly, image capturing unit and electronic device" was invented by Yu-Tai Tseng (Taichung, Taiwan), Tung-Yi Hsieh (Taichung, Taiwan) and Hsin-Hsuan Huang (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photographing lens assembly includes five lens elements, 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 and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial ...