US Patent Issued to Canon on May 12 for "Zoom lens and apparatus including the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,353, issued on May 12, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Zoom lens and apparatus including the same" was invented by Yuki Shinzato (Saitama, Japan) and Shunji Iwamoto (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a rear lens group including one or more lens units, which are disposed in this order from an object side to an image side, wherein a distance between adjacent lens units changes in zooming, wherein the first lens unit does not move and the second lens unit moves in zooming, wherein the seco...