US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on April 29 for "Zoom lens and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,467, issued on April 29, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Zoom lens and imaging apparatus" was invented by Taiga Noda (Saitama, Japan) and Michio Cho (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zoom lens includes a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, a positive third lens group, and a subsequent group consisting of plural lens groups in order from an object side. In a case of zooming, an interval with an adjacent lens group is changed. The third lens group includes two uncemented positive lenses consecutively arranged in order from a side closest to the object side to an image side. A lens group close...