ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,533, issued on April 29, was assigned to NINGBO SUNNY AUTOMOTIVE OPTECH Co. LTD (Ningbo, China).

"Optical lens assembly and imaging device" was invented by Xiaoyu Luan (Ningbo, China), Bo Yao (Ningbo, China), Dongfang Wang (Ningbo, China) and Qiansen Xie (Ningbo, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an optical lens, and an imaging device comprising the optical lens. The optical lens comprises: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens in sequence from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, where the first lens has negative optical power, an obj...