US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 20 for "Zoom lens and image capturing apparatus including the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,101, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Zoom lens and image capturing apparatus including the same" was invented by Hiroki Ebe (Tochigi, Japan) and Shunji Iwamoto (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having negative refractive power, a second lens unit having positive refractive power, and a rear lens group including one or more lens units. The zoom lens includes an aperture stop. The rear lens group includes a focus lens unit having negative refractive power that is moved to an image side in focusing from an infinite to a close distance and at least one lens unit ...