US Patent Issued to Canon on June 3 for "Zoom lens and imaging apparatus including the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,963, issued on June 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Zoom lens and imaging apparatus including the same" was invented by Takahiro Hatada (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zoom lens L0 includes a first lens group L1 and a rear group LR disposed in order from an object side to an image side, the first lens group L1 having a negative refractive power and the rear group LR having a positive refractive power as a whole. The rear group LR includes a partial group LP, a partial group LN, and two or more lens groups between which distances change in zooming. When image blur is corrected, the partial group LN moves in a d...