US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 1 for "Attachment optical system and image pickup apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,339, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Attachment optical system and image pickup apparatus" was invented by Takashi Okada (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attachment optical system, to which an imaging lens is attachable on an object side of the attachment optical system includes two bending optical systems arranged in parallel. Each of the two bending optical systems includes a first reflective member and a second reflective member. Each of the two bending optical systems includes, in order from the object side to an image side, a front unit and a rear unit, which are separated by a maximum ai...