ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,751, issued on May 26, was assigned to NIDEC PRECISION Corp. (Tokyo) and FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Camera" was invented by Koji Sekizawa (Tokyo), Tomihiro Wakayama (Tokyo), Yuichi Ozawa (Tokyo) and Hisashi Tasaka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera includes a lens barrel including a rotary cylinder and a key cylinder movable forward relative to a barrel portion in a frame from a position radially inside the barrel portion, and a linearly movable cylinder movable forward relative to the rotary cylinder and the key cylinder from a position radially inside the key cylinder. The camera includes a light shield having a rear exten...