ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,490, issued on May 20, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Camera system, camera body" was invented by Yasuhiro Shingu (Osaka, Japan) and Tetsuya Uno (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera system includes a camera body, a lens barrel that is mounted to the camera body and includes at least one movable lens, and a zoom ring drive device that is mounted to the camera body. A first control unit of the camera body controls a second control unit of the lens barrel and a third control unit of the zoom ring drive device so as to move a zoom lens with a DC motor on the basis of ...