US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 8 for "Zoom lens and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,287, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Zoom lens and imaging apparatus" was invented by Taiga Noda (Saitama, Japan) and Ryosuke Nagami (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zoom lens consists of, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens group having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a negative refractive power; a third lens group having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power; a fifth lens group having a negative refractive power; and a sixth lens group having a positive refractive power. During zooming from the w...