US Patent Issued to SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN), ASIA OPTICAL on April 29 for "Image capture apparatus and zoom lens" (Chinese, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,529, issued on April 29, was assigned to SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China) and ASIA OPTICAL Co. INC. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Image capture apparatus and zoom lens" was invented by Guo-Quan Lin (ShenZhen, China) and Kazutaka Goami (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture apparatus and a zoom lens are provided. The zoom lens in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the invention includes a mount, a guide unit, a plurality of lens groups and a driving device. The guide unit is disposed in the mount in a first direction. The lens groups are disposed in the mount and include at least one movabl...