US Patent Issued to Canon on June 30 for "Zoom lens and imaging apparatus including the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,687, issued on June 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Zoom lens and imaging apparatus including the same" was invented by Yasuaki Hagiwara (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zoom lens includes a first lens unit with positive refractive power, a second lens unit with negative refractive power, an intermediate group including an aperture stop and at least one lens unit, and a rear group including at least two lens units placed in this order from an object side to an image side, and an interval between adjacent lens units changes during zooming. The lens unit of the rear group placed closest to the object side has t...