US Patent Issued to CANON on July 29 for "Optical system and image pickup apparatus having the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,752, issued on July 29, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Optical system and image pickup apparatus having the same" was invented by Shinya Okuoka (Tochigi, Japan) and Takeo Mori (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system includes a plurality of lenses and a diaphragm. The plurality of lenses consist of, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The diaphragm is located between the first lens and the second lens....