US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on March 4 for "Imaging lens and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,133, issued on March 4, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging lens and imaging apparatus" was invented by Taiga Noda (Saitama, Japan) and Ryoko Tomioka (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The imaging lens consists of, in order from the object side, a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a stop, a second lens group having a positive refractive power, and a third lens group. The third lens group includes one or more positive lenses and one or more negative lenses. During focusing, an entirety of the first lens group, the stop, and the second lens group, or an entirety of the second lens group integ...