ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,092, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Lens device" was invented by Nobuyuki Kondo (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens device includes a lens barrel, a first operation ring that is provided on an outer periphery of the lens barrel and that is rotationally operated along a circumferential direction of the lens barrel, and a structure that generates, with respect to the first operation ring, a force in a direction opposite to a direction in which the first operation ring is operated, in which the first operation ring and the structure are disposed closer to an image side than a position of a ...