ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,466, issued on April 29, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Zoom lens and imaging apparatus" was invented by Masaru Yonezawa (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The zoom lens consists of, in order from an object side: a first lens group that has a positive refractive power; a middle group that includes a plurality of lens groups each moving by changing a spacing with an adjacent lens group during zooming; and a final lens group that remains stationary during zooming and has a positive refractive power. Among the plurality of lens groups that move during zooming in the middle group, an image side movable lens group, wh...