US Patent Issued to Cinema Gear Design on April 8 for "Universal device for relative movement between the optical plane and the focal plane of a lens and a camera" (Spanish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,102, issued on April 8, was assigned to Cinema Gear Design SL (San Sebastian de los Reyes, Spain).

"Universal device for relative movement between the optical plane and the focal plane of a lens and a camera" was invented by Sergio De Una Jaime (Saragossa, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It consists of a frame (1) for fixing the camera body (2), from whose sides emerge two forks (5) that end in respective articulations (6) for a bridge (7-7') with an inverted "U" configuration, so that the imaginary axis that joins the two joints coincides with the focal plane or sensor of the camera (2). The articulations (6) include means for ...