US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 6 for "Zoom lens and imaging apparatus including the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,404, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Zoom lens and imaging apparatus including the same" was invented by Yutaka Iriyama (Saitama, Japan), Naotoshi Ogawa (Tochigi, Japan) and Yusuke Kurosu (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zoom lens includes a first lens group arranged closest to an object side, configured not to move for zooming, and having a positive refractive power, a lens group GR arranged closest to an image side, configured not to move for zooming, and having a positive refractive power, and a lens group GP arranged adjacent to the object side of the lens group GR, configured to move for zoo...