US Patent Issued to Sony Group on May 12 for "Zoom lens and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,890, issued on May 12, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Zoom lens and imaging apparatus" was invented by Masaki Maruyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zoom lens of the disclosure includes: a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; an intermediate lens group including at least one positive lens group and having positive refractive power as a whole; and a rear lens group including at least negative and positive lens groups. When an object distance varies from infinity to a short distance, the negative and positive lens groups in the rear lens ...