US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 30 for "Lens apparatus, image capturing apparatus, and image capturing system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,667, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Lens apparatus, image capturing apparatus, and image capturing system" was invented by Shu Ito (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens apparatus includes a drive unit to drive a second lens barrel in an optical axis direction, a connection member to connect the second lens barrel and the drive unit, a movement base to hold the drive unit and move the drive unit in the optical axis direction with respect to a first lens barrel, and a second urging member to urge the movement base against the first lens barrel in a direction orthogonal to a plane passing throu...