US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 3 for "Drive apparatus, optical system, and image pickuping apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,666, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Drive apparatus, optical system, and image pickuping apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Konishi (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The plurality of contact pins include a VBAT terminal to which a driving power source for driving the motor is supplied and a PGND terminal corresponding to a ground level of the driving power source, and the VBAT terminal and the PGND terminal are disposed closer to the fastening member than, any other contact pins of the plurality of contact pins than the VBAT terminal and the PGND terminal."

The patent was filed on April 9, 2024, un...