ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,011, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Imaging lens and imaging apparatus" was invented by Takuya Tanaka (Saitama, Japan) and Yasutaka Shimada (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging 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 positive refractive power; and a third lens group, wherein: during focusing, the second lens group moves along an optical axis, and the first lens group and the third lens group remain stationary with respect to an image plane, the second lens group includes ...