US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on May 27 for "Lens support mechanism, and lens barrel and camera provided with the lens support mechanism" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,903, issued on May 27, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Lens support mechanism, and lens barrel and camera provided with the lens support mechanism" was invented by Daisuke Ito (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens support mechanism 10 comprises lens group units 23 to 27, a substantially cylindrical rectilinear cylinder 11, and a substantially cylindrical cam cylinder 12. The rectilinear cylinder 11 envelops the lens group units 23 to 27, and has main cam followers 11b protruding outward in the radial direction from the outer peripheral surface, and a sub cam groove 11...