US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on March 24 for "Lens device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,079, issued on March 24, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens device includes a fixation portion fixed to a lens mechanism and a rotational movement portion that is connected to the fixation portion to be rotationally movable. One of the fixation portion and the rotational movement portion includes a detection member and the other of the fixation portion and the rotational movement portion includes a detection target member and a substr...