US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Sept. 16 for "Stacked lens, optical unit, endoscope, and method of manufacturing optical unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,746, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Stacked lens, optical unit, endoscope, and method of manufacturing optical unit" was invented by Kazuhiro Murakami (Nagano, Japan), Kensuke Suga (Nagano, Japan) and Jumpei Yoneyama (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stacked lens includes: a first optical device; a second optical device disposed on an optical axis of the first optical device; and an adhesive layer bonding the first optical device and the second optical device and including a projection projecting outside a side surface of the first optical device and a side surface of the second optical dev...