US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Nov. 3 for "Zoom lens and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,682, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Zoom lens and imaging apparatus" was invented by Tetsuichiro Okumura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshio Hosono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zoom lens according to the present disclosure includes, in order from a side of an object toward a side of an image plane: a first lens group having negative refractive power; a second lens group; a third lens group having positive refractive power; and a fourth lens group having negative refractive power, in which an interval between adjacent lens groups varies upon zooming, and the second lens group is fixed upon the zooming....