US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on May 6 for "Zoom lens and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,554, issued on May 6, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Zoom lens and imaging apparatus" was invented by Daiki Komatsu (Saitama, Japan), Masanao Kawana (Saitama, Japan), Motoari Ota (Saitama, Japan) and Takuya Tanaka (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 positive refractive power, a second lens group that has a positive refractive power, and a subsequent group. During zooming, a spacing between the first lens group and the second lens group changes, and a spacing between the second lens group and the subsequent group changes. The s...