ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,658, issued on March 18, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Imaging lens and imaging apparatus" was invented by Takashi Saotome (Kyoto, Japan), Daisuke Kanai (Kyoto, Japan), Takaharu Fujii (Kyoto, Japan), Satoru Kihara (Kyoto, Japan) and Kousuke Sugiki (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging lens includes a front group having negative power, an aperture stop, and a rear group having positive power, in order from an object side. In the front group, a first lens surface has a convex shape toward the object side. In the rear group, a second lens surface has a convex shape toward the object side, a third lens...