US Patent Issued to TAMRON on Sept. 1 for "Imaging lens and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,230, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TAMRON Co. LTD. (Saitama, Japan).

"Imaging lens and imaging apparatus" was invented by Hiroki Emura (Saitama, Japan), Hiroyuki Hagiwara (Saitama, Japan) and Shingo Fuse (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens including a negative meniscus lens having a convex shape facing the object, a second lens including a positive meniscus lens having a convex shape facing the image, at least one lens including a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens including a positive lens having a convex imag...