ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,795, issued on March 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Lens apparatus and image pickup apparatus" was invented by Taro Murakami (Musashino, Japan), Takumi Uehara (Kawasaki, Japan), Hiroki Ito (Hiratsuka, Japan) and Atsuto Noda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens apparatus includes a first optical system, a second optical system disposed in parallel with the first optical system, and a lens mount attachable to a camera body. Each of the first optical system and the second optical system has a first optical axis, a second optical axis, and a third optical axis in order from an object side to an image side. A distance b...