US Patent Issued to CANON on March 17 for "Image pickup apparatus capable of suppressing increase in size of image pickup apparatus due to mounting external connector" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,627, issued on March 17, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus capable of suppressing increase in size of image pickup apparatus due to mounting external connector" was invented by Hiroshi Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus capable of avoiding an increase in the image pickup apparatus's size due to mounting an external connector is provided. The image pickup apparatus includes a barrel unit, a battery disposed in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction being an optical axis direction of the barrel unit, and a power supply circuit board on which an electronic c...