US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 20 for "Imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,080, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus" was invented by Kazuaki Yamana (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes an optical filter, a holding member which holds the optical filter and which is movable between a first position where an imaging luminous flux passes through the optical filter and a second position where the imaging luminous flux does not pass through the optical filter, and an elastic member which relatively moves on a surface of the optical filter while being in contact with the surface during a movement of the holding member. A portion, on a s...