ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,906, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Interchangeable lens and image pickup apparatus" was invented by Hajime Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interchangeable lens attachable to and detachable from an image pickup apparatus that includes a single image sensor includes a plurality of lens units that include a first lens unit and a second lens unit, and a communication unit configured to transmit to the image pickup apparatus information for setting an imaging area acquired by the first lens unit that is used in monaurally displaying image to a photometric area."

The patent was filed on S...