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. 12,742,953, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus" was invented by Kohei Kimura (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zoom lens includes a plurality of lens units, the plurality of lens units consisting of, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having positive refractive power, a second lens unit having negative refractive power, and a rear group consisting of one or more lens units. A distance between adjacent lens units changes during zooming, and the second lens unit does not move for zooming. At least a part of the second lens unit moves in a ...