US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 18 for "Accessory, image pickup apparatus on which same is mountable, and camera system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,625, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Accessory, image pickup apparatus on which same is mountable, and camera system" was invented by Masahisa Tamura (Tochigi, Japan), Kunihiko Sasaki (Tochigi, Japan), Toshinori Yamazaki (Tokyo) and Masayasu Shigematsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accessory attachable to and detachable from an image pickup apparatus includes a second mount portion including a plurality of second bayonet claw portions capable of engaging with a plurality of first bayonet claw portions, a plurality of second terminals capable of contacting with a plurality of first terminals, an acce...