US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on June 10 for "Imaging optical system, image capture device, and camera system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,546, issued on June 10, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging optical system, image capture device, and camera system" was invented by Genki Nakazawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging optical system consists of a first lens group having positive power, a second lens group having power; and a third lens group having power. The first lens group and the third lens group are immobile along an optical axis and the second lens group moves along the optical axis while the imaging optical system is focusing. The first lens group consists of: a sub-lens group G1A; an...