ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,531, issued on March 25, was assigned to LARGAN PRECISION Co. LTD. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Photographing optical lens assembly, image capturing unit and electronic device" was invented by Hsin-Hsuan Huang (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photographing optical lens assembly includes, in order from object side to 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 has positive refractive power. The second, third, fourth and fifth lens elements have refractive power. The sixth le...