US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 8 for "Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,286, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus" was invented by Makoto Nakahara (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having negative refractive power and disposed closest to an object, and a rear group including three or more lens units and disposed on an image side of the first lens unit. A distance between adjacent lens units changes during zooming. The first lens unit moves toward the image side during zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end. Predetermined inequalities are satisfied."

The patent was filed on July 26, 2024,...