US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 25 for "Zoom lens and imaging apparatus including the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,120, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Zoom lens and imaging apparatus including the same" was invented by Kohei Kimura (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zoom lens comprises a first lens unit having positive refractive power, a second lens unit having negative refractive power, and a rear lens group including one or more lens units. The first lens unit, the second lens unit, the rear lens group are arranged in order from an object side to an image side. Intervals between adjacent lens units change during zooming. The first lens unit is configured to move toward the object side during zooming from ...