ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,132, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Zoom lens and imaging apparatus" was invented by Hiroki Saito (Saitama, Japan), Tatsuyuki Ogino (Saitama, Japan), Masato Kondo (Saitama, Japan) and Takuya Tanaka (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zoom lens consisting of, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens group that has a positive refractive power; a second lens group that has a negative refractive power; and a subsequent group that has a plurality of lens groups, wherein: the zoom lens includes an aperture stop at a position closer to the image side than a lens surface closest to...