US Patent Issued to Canon on July 15 for "Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus having the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,349, issued on July 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus having the same" was invented by Kohei Kimura (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zoom lens includes a plurality of lens units. The plurality of lens units consist of, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a middle group including one or more lens units, and a final lens unit having a negative refractive power. Each distance between adjacent lens units changes during zooming. The first lens unit includes at least three negative lenses. Predetermined conditions ar...