ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,352, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Zoom lens and image-capturing apparatus" was invented by Shinichiro Saito (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zoom lens consists of four or more lens units including, in order from an object side to an image side, first, second, and third lens units having positive, negative, and positive refractive powers, respectively. During zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, the first lens unit moves, a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit is widened, and a distance between the second lens unit and the third lens unit is narrowed. The...