ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,457, issued on April 29, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Imaging lens and imaging apparatus" was invented by Daiki Kawamura (Saitama, Japan) and Michio Cho (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging lens includes, successively in order from a position closest to an object side, a positive first lens group that does not move during focusing, a stop, and a positive second lens group that moves during focusing. The second lens group consists of all lenses that integrally move during focusing. The imaging lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions."
The patent was filed on July 16, 2021, under Applicatio...