ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,078, issued on April 14, was assigned to NIDEC PRECISION Corp. (Tokyo) and FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Camera" was invented by Koichi Hirabayashi (Tokyo) and Hisashi Tasaka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera includes a counter rotatable about a support shaft, a spring that urges the counter in a first rotation direction, a rotary member and a drive cam that rotate the counter in a direction opposite to the first rotation direction, a stopper rotatable about the support shaft, and a spring that urges the stopper in a second rotation direction. The counter includes an outer circumferential surface that changes an indication i...