ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,463, issued on May 20, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Imaging lens and imaging apparatus" was invented by Toshihiro Aoi (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The imaging lens consists of a positive first lens group, a stop, and a positive second lens group in order from the object side to the image side. An Ln lens, which is a negative lens having an absolute value of a curvature radius of an image side surface smaller than an absolute value of a curvature radius of an object side surface, is disposed at a position closest to the image side in the first lens group. In a Cartesian coordinate system in which a horizo...