ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,033, issued on March 4, was assigned to ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICS Co. LTD. (Ningbo, China).

"Optical imaging lens assembly" was invented by Yu Zhou (Zhejiang, China), Yu Tang (Zhejiang, China), Fujian Dai (Zhejiang, China) and Liefeng Zhao (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides an optical imaging lens assembly, which sequentially includes, from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens with a positive refractive power; a second lens with a negative refractive power; a third lens with a positive refractive power, an object-side surface thereof being a convex surface; a fourth lens...