US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Dec. 2 for "Lens, lens support structure, and lens barrel and camera provided with same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,428, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Lens, lens support structure, and lens barrel and camera provided with same" was invented by Yoshio Naka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a lens with which lens distortion attributable to an external factor can be suppressed and the optical axis of the lens can thereby be accurately adjusted, as well as a lens support structure, a lens barrel provided with this, and a camera. A lens 150 comprises a lens main body 151 that transmits light, and a distortion absorbing...