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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,610, 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 Yasuto Suzuki (Osaka, Japan), Yoshiaki Kurioka (Osaka, Japan) and Shunichiro Yoshinaga (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging optical system includes a first lens group having positive power, a second lens group, and a third lens group. The first lens group includes a sub-lens group G1A, an aperture stop, and a sub-lens group G1B. The sub-lens group G1A includes a lens L1A1 and a lens L1A2. An object-side surface of the lens L1A1 ...