US Patent Issued to CANON on July 28 for "Control system of linear actuator, lens apparatus, image capturing apparatus, control method of linear actuator, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,492, issued on July 28, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control system of linear actuator, lens apparatus, image capturing apparatus, control method of linear actuator, and storage medium" was invented by Kyosuke Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system of a linear actuator that is provided with a coil and a magnetic field unit, and is configured to drive a drive target object along a main axis, is configured to acquire position information of the drive target object or the linear actuator from an encoder and calculate the position information of the drive target object and the linear actuator, calcu...