ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,542, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Imaging lens and imaging apparatus" was invented by Ukyo Tomioka (Saitama, Japan) and Toshihiro Aoi (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging lens consisting of, in order from an object side to an image side: a front group; a stop; and a rear group that has a refractive power, wherein: the front group and the rear group are combined and include at least five negative lenses and at least three positive lenses, a lens closest to the object side in the front group is a first lens as a negative meniscus lens which has a convex surface facing toward the objec...