US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Nov. 11 for "Imaging optical system, image capture device, and camera system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,118, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging optical system, image capture device, and camera system" was invented by Yuka Ikegami (Hyogo, Japan), Takahiro Kitada (Osaka, Japan) and Kunio Dohno (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 negative power; and a third lens group having positive power. The first lens group and the third lens group are fixed with respect to an image plane, with the second lens group moving along an optical axis, while the imagi...