ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,682, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Optical apparatus, vehicle-mounted camera, and transportation apparatus" was invented by Tatsuya Tanaka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical apparatus includes a lens, a lens holding member configured to hold the lens, an imaging device configured to receive light that has passed through the lens at an imaging plane of the imaging device to convert the received light into an electrical signal, and a device holder configured to hold the imaging device, the lens, the lens holding member, the imaging device, and the device holder being integrally formed in the opti...