US Patent Issued to CANON on July 28 for "Optical apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,579, issued on July 28, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Optical apparatus" was invented by Junichiro Iwamatsu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical apparatus includes a lens barrel, holding members sandwiching and holding the lens barrel with elastic members therebetween, and the elastic members disposed between the lens barrel and the holding members. The holding members include a first holding member, and a second holding member which is disposed on a side opposite to the first holding member in an optical axis direction with the lens barrel sandwiched therebetween. The elastic members include first elasti...