US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on March 11 for "Zoom lens system, image capture device, and camera system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,129, issued on March 11, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Zoom lens system, image capture device, and camera system" was invented by Genki Nakazawa (Osaka, Japan), Takao Yamanaka (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshiaki Kurioka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zoom lens system includes: a first lens group having positive power; a second lens group having negative power; a third lens group having positive power; a fourth lens group having positive power; a fifth lens group having negative power; and a following lens group following the fifth lens group. The first to fifth lens grou...