US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 22 for "Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,952, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus" was invented by Yu Inomoto (Saitama, 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 positive lens unit fixed for zooming, a second negative lens unit that moves during zooming, at least two lens units that move during zooming, a final positive lens unit disposed closest to an image plane and fixed for zooming, and an aperture stop disposed between a lens surface closest to the image plane of the second lens unit and a lens surface closest to an object of the final lens...