ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,720, issued on July 22, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Lens barrel" was invented by Masayasu Mizushima (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens barrel includes an electric contact fixed to a mount, a first substrate disposed between a fixed barrel and the mount, a second substrate connected to the first substrate and the electric contact while forming a folded portion, and disposed so as to overlap the first substrate when viewed from an optical axis direction, a plurality of first elastic members held by the fixed barrel and configured to position and hold the first substrate in a direction orthogonal to an optica...