ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,346, issued on July 15, was assigned to NEWMAX TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Optical lens assembly and photographing module" was invented by Chi-Chung Wang (Taichung, Taiwan) and Ya-Hsin Huang (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical lens assembly includes a stop and, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. The optical lens assembly has a half of a maximum field of view of the optical lens assembly a distance from an image-side surface of the seventh lens to an image plane on an optical axis, ...