US Patent Issued to CANON on March 17 for "Optical system and image pickup apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,557, issued on March 17, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Optical system and image pickup apparatus" was invented by Kohei Kimura (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system includes a movable unit movable in a direction eccentric to an optical axis. The movable unit includes a resin layer and a lens cemented together and satisfies a predetermined condition."

The patent was filed on April 26, 2022, under Application No. 17/729,087.

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