US Patent Issued to NIKON on June 23 for "Blur correction device, lens barrel, and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,692, issued on June 23, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Blur correction device, lens barrel, and imaging apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Sakamoto (Kawasaki, Japan) and Sueyuki Ohishi (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blur correction device includes a lens holding frame that holds a lens, a holding frame that movably holds the lens holding frame, a first drive unit that drives the lens holding frame with respect to the holding frame in a direction intersecting an optical axis, a lock member configured to move between a lock position that restricts movement of the lens holding frame and a release position that r...