ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,313, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Imaging lens and imaging apparatus" was invented by Motoari Ota (Saitama, Japan) and Daiki Kawamura (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging lens includes, in order from the object side, a first lens group that has a negative refractive power and a second lens group that has a positive refractive power. During focusing, only the second lens group moves. The first lens group includes three negative lenses successively in order from a position closest to the object side. Assuming that an open F number is FNo, a maximum half angle of view is Omega, a back...