US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 23 for "Cemented lens, optical system including the same, optical apparatus, and method for manufacturing cemented lens" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,562, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Cemented lens, optical system including the same, optical apparatus, and method for manufacturing cemented lens" was invented by Masanobu Ogane (Yokohama, Japan), Kenji Makino (Kawasaki, Japan) and Norihiko Ochi (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cemented lens includes a first optical element, a second optical element, a third optical element sandwiched between the first optical element and the second optical element and containing resin, a light shielding layer covering a surface of the third optical element that is in contact with neither the first optical ...