US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 7 for "Lens barrel having excellent assemblability in assembly of optical lens and other members thereof, and having good optical performance, image pickup apparatus including the same, and method for positioning optical lens" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,447, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Lens barrel having excellent assemblability in assembly of optical lens and other members thereof, and having good optical performance, image pickup apparatus including the same, and method for positioning optical lens" was invented by Kohei Uemura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens barrel having excellent assemblability in the assembly of components thereof and having good optical performance. The lens barrel comprises an optical lens including a lens unit which has a flange on an outer peripheral thereof, a retaining member retaining the optical lens on one side o...