ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,200, issued on March 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Handheld blur evaluating apparatus, handheld blur evaluating method, manufacturing method of imaging unit, and storage medium" was invented by Minami Furuta (Tokyo), Naoki Nomura (Kanagawa, Japan), Tamaki Negishi (Tokyo), Koichi Washisu (Tokyo) and Kosuke Kiyamura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handheld blur evaluating apparatus is configured to evaluate a handheld blur of an imaging unit. The handheld blur evaluating apparatus includes an excitation unit configured to excite the imaging unit configured to image an object, a detector configured to detect ...