ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,866, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Lens apparatus, imaging apparatus, imaging system, processing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Mariko Nishiyama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazuya Shimomura (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens apparatus to be attached to an imaging apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store correction data on distortion aberrations in association with a plurality of focal lengths, and a communication unit configured to transmit the correction data."

The patent was filed on Sept. 28, 2023, under Application No. 18/477,294.

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