ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,476, issued on May 13, was assigned to MEJIRO 67 INC. (Tokyo).

"Imaging lens" was invented by Makoto Uehara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an imaging lens consisting of a front-group imaging lens having a plurality of lenses in front and behind a diaphragm, and a convex-concave Galilean system composed of a convex lens on the front group side and a concave lens on the imaging plane side, the imaging lens performing focusing by fixing the convex-concave Galileo system near the imaging plane and extending the front-group imaging lens, wherein the surface on the imaging plane side of the lens at the end of the Galileo...