ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,205, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Optical apparatus and image pickup apparatus" was invented by Makoto Hayakawa (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical apparatus including: an optical element; a holding barrel that holds the optical element; a biasing barrel that holds the optical element between the holding barrel and the biasing barrel; and an elastic member that biases the biasing barrel toward the holding barrel, in which the holding barrel includes a first and second receivers for positioning the optical element in an optical axis direction and in an optical axis orthogonal direction,...