ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,238, issued on April 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Imaging lens and imaging device" was invented by Toshihiro Aoi (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging lens consisting of, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens group; a stop; and a second lens group having a positive refractive power, in which the first lens group includes three or more Ln lenses that are consecutively disposed, the Ln lens is a negative lens in which a surface on the image side is a concave surface, and in a case in which, among the three or more Ln lenses that are consecutively disposed and included in the firs...