ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,573, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Zoom lens and imaging apparatus" was invented by Ryosuke Nagami (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The zoom lens consists of, in order from the object side, a first lens group that has a negative refractive power; a second lens group that has a positive refractive power; a third lens group that has a negative refractive power; and a fourth lens group that has a positive refractive power. During zooming, in each lens group, distances between the adjacent groups in the direction of the optical axis are changed. The first lens group consists of, in order from the...