ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,911, issued on April 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus capable of efficiently cooling recording medium while preventing size increase" was invented by Yosaku Endo (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuko Iritani (Tokyo), Hayato Mano (Tokyo) and Kenta Ono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus which is capable of efficiently cooling a recording medium while preventing size increase. A first board is substantially perpendicular to an optical axis direction. A second board is disposed parallel to the first board. A recording medium housing is mounted on the second board and is capable of housing th...