US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Oct. 6 for "Imaging optical system, image capture device, and camera system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,396, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging optical system, image capture device, and camera system" was invented by Emiri Suzuki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging optical system consists of: a first lens group having positive power; a second lens group having negative power; and a third lens group having positive power. The second lens group moves along an optical axis of the optical system toward an image plane, while the optical system is focusing to switch from an infinity in-focus state to a close-object in-focus state. The first lens gr...