US Patent Issued to Sony Group on July 22 for "Lens system, and a method and computer program product for controlling the lens system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,727, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Lens system, and a method and computer program product for controlling the lens system" was invented by Christin Weichelt (Stuttgart, Germany), Markus Kamm (Stuttgart, Germany), Motoyuki Otake (Stuttgart, Germany), Takumi Matsui (Stuttgart, Germany) and Manabu Ishioka (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens system for an imaging device is provided, the lens system comprising: a first lens group, having a fixed position along an optical axis Z of the lens system, the first lens group comprising a pair of lenses, each of the pair of lenses having at le...