US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on June 30 for "Lens mechanism and lens device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,672, issued on June 30, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Lens mechanism and lens device" was invented by Nobuyuki Kondo (Saitama, Japan), Mitsuhiko Oka (Saitama, Japan) and Toshiaki Ezawa (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens mechanism includes a lens holding member that holds a lens, a movement member that is connected to the lens holding member, a fixation member that supports the movement member to be movable in an optical axis direction, a sensor that detects a position of the movement member, and an adjustment mechanism of the lens holding member. The sensor and the adjustment mechanism are disposed on an...