US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Nov. 18 for "Imaging lens and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,551, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging lens and imaging apparatus" was invented by Yuya Hirakawa (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The imaging lens includes, successively in order from a position closest to an object side, a first lens group that has a positive refractive power and a second lens group that has a negative refractive power. During focusing, only the second lens group moves. The first lens group consists of a first A group, an aperture stop, and a first B group, in order from the object side. The second lens group includes at least one positive lens. The imaging lens satisf...