ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,447, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to LARGAN PRECISION Co. LTD. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Imaging optical lens system, image capturing unit and electronic device" was invented by Chun-Yen Chen (Taichung, Taiwan) and Meng-Kuan Cho (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging optical lens system includes seven lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path: 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. Each of the seven lens elements has an object-side surface facin...