ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,208, issued on July 14, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Imaging apparatus" was invented by Yujiro Kitagawa (Osaka, Japan) and Yuji Tominaga (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing device includes: a casing at least partially including a metal part, an outer surface of the casing including at least a part of which is formed by the metal part; a lens mount provided on a front surface of the casing; an image sensor provided inside the casing, the image sensor being positioned rearward of the lens mount; a thermally conductive sheet that transfers heat generated...