US Patent Issued to CANON on July 28 for "Lens apparatus and image pickup apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,491, issued on July 28, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Lens apparatus and image pickup apparatus" was invented by Takehiko Sato (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens apparatus includes an optical system including at least one movable lens unit that moves along an optical axis of the optical system and at least one fixed lens unit that does not move along the optical axis, an operation member disposed outside at least part of the optical system in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis and operable by a user, and a driving unit configured to be controlled according to an operation of the operation member, to ...