US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Aug. 12 for "Imaging lens and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,158, issued on Aug. 12, 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 a positive first lens group and a second lens group, which are continuous in order from the position closest to the object side, as lens groups. During focusing, the distance between the first lens group and the second lens group changes. A stop is disposed closer to the image side than a lens which is second from the object side. A combined refractive power of all lenses closer to the object side than...