US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on June 30 for "Lens barrel and imaging device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,671, issued on June 30, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Lens barrel and imaging device" was invented by Nobuyuki Kondo (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens barrel includes a lens barrel main body that holds an imaging optical system, a first operation member that is provided around the lens barrel main body and adjusts an optical function of the imaging optical system, and a second operation member that is provided around the lens barrel main body and varies a degree of adjustment of the optical function by the first operation member. The second operation member is provided near the first operation member."...