----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Shell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I do consulting work on patents. This patent was a Canon patent, but traded to Olympus.
Are you sure? It has been very widely stated as a Minolta patent even in litterature. Minolta actually used the patent as well in Minolta CLE.
There's something about it here: http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00E2yj
