ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,629, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Lens barrel, control method, and imaging device" was invented by Syohei Uchida (Tokyo), Takuya Hasegawa (Tokyo), Masayuki Miyazawa (Tokyo), Nobuhiro Kondo (Tokyo), Masayuki Miyazaki (Tokyo), Tetsu Tanaka (Tokyo) and Daiki Kondo (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens barrel includes a lens drive unit that moves a lens holder holding a lens in an optical axis direction, a locking mechanism that regulates movement of the lens holder at a movable end of the lens holder, and a control unit that performs, as a shift process for shifting the lens holder to a movement r...