US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on April 29 for "Lens system, imaging device, and imaging system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,462, issued on April 29, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Lens system, imaging device, and imaging system" was invented by Hiroyuki Shobayashi (Osaka, Japan), Yoshio Matsumura (Osaka, Japan), Takuya Imaoka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomoko Iiyama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens system includes a plurality of lens elements arranged from an object side to an image plane side, and a diaphragm arranged between the plurality of lens elements. The plurality of lens elements include a plurality of freeform lenses each having a freeform surface that is asymmetrical with respec...