ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,370, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LARGAN PRECISION Co. LTD. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Photographing lens assembly, image capturing unit and electronic device" was invented by Chun-Che Hsueh (Taichung, Taiwan), Hung-Shuo Chen (Taichung, Taiwan), Kuan Chun Wang (Taichung, Taiwan) and Wei-Yu Chen (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photographing lens assembly includes a total of eight lens elements which are, 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, a seventh lens element and an eighth...