ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,937, issued on May 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image pickup apparatus suppressing flange back changes" was invented by Daisuke Nishioka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus includes, in order from an image side to an object side along an optical axis a first base member, a second base member fixed to the first base member, an image sensor substrate having an image sensor mounted thereon, and being fixed to the second base member, and a structural member configured to support a lens. A linear thermal expansion coefficient of the second base member is larger than that of the first base member."
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