US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on April 22 for "Zoom lens and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,143, issued on April 22, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Zoom lens and imaging apparatus" was invented by Masaru Yonezawa (Saitama, Japan), Shinkichi Ikeda (Saitama, Japan), Takashi Kunugise (Saitama, Japan) and Masanao Kawana (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The zoom lens consists of a first lens group, a front group, a middle group, and a rear group, in order from an object side. The first lens group has a positive refractive power and includes a negative lens and a positive lens, successively in order from a position closest to the object side to an image side. The front group consists of one or more lens gro...