US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 6 for "Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,403, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus" was invented by Makoto Nakahara (Tochigi, Japan) and Takeo Mori (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having negative refractive power, and a rear group including two or more lens units, and an aperture stop. The rear group includes an image stabilizing unit having negative refractive power and configured to move with a component in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis during image stabilization, and a focus unit disposed on the object sid...