ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,708, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Optical system including cemented lenses, imaging apparatus including the same, and moving apparatus including the same" was invented by Naoto Doujou (Tochigi, Japan) and Kazuhiko Kajiyama (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system includes an aperture stop closest to an object and a plurality of lenses. The plurality of lenses includes a first positive lens convex toward an object side, a first negative lens convex toward the object side, a first cemented lens, and a second cemented lens arranged consecutively in this order from the object side to an ...