
Viltrox filed another patent in China that involves the Nikon Z-mount – here is the interpretation I got from AI translation:

After years of finding interesting information on upcoming cameras and lenses in the latest design patents, Nikon finally found a solution by filing “secret” patents. This probably explains why we have seen only a few Nikon patents in the past few years. Currently, there are four new Nikon design patents that are marked as “secret” […]

Back in 2020, the patent troll Digimedia Tech sued Nikon (and many other companies) for patent infringement on the following patents: 6,914,635 for “Microminiature Zoom System for Digital Camera” 6,545,706 and 7,715,476 for “System, Method and Article of Manufacture for Tracking a Head of a Camera-Generated Image of a Person.” The impacted cameras were the Nikon Coolpix A1000 and Nikon Coolpix […]

I have been behind on my Nikon patents reporting – my last patent-related blog post is from 2019! Unacceptable! I have over 50 different patents I want to cover on the blog. I will try to catch in the next few weeks. Here is the first batch of 12 Nikkor Z lens patents: NIKKOR Z […]