US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 20 for "Lens module" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,082, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Lens module" was invented by Kei Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens module includes a lens unit that includes a barrel member that holds a lens, and an operating member fixed to an outer circumference of the barrel member, a holding member that rotatably holds the lens unit, and a fixed member fixed to the operating member with a screw. The barrel member includes first convex portions configured to fix the lens at a plurality of locations in a circumferential direction. The operating member includes a second convex portion disposed between the fir...