US Patent Issued to CANON on May 5 for "Zoom lens, and image pickup apparatus having the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,056, issued on May 5, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Zoom lens, and image pickup apparatus having the same" was invented by Junya Ichimura (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having positive refractive power, a second lens unit having negative refractive power, a third lens unit having positive refractive power, a fourth lens unit having positive refractive power, and a fifth lens unit having negative refractive power. During zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, a distance between adjacent lens units changes, the first l...