ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,772, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Light-transmitting member and shield" was invented by Shuhei Yamamoto (Tokyo), Tomonari Nakayama (Tokyo), Yoji Teramoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Miwa Takachi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shun Ouchi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-transmitting member includes a substrate including a resin layer, and a functional film disposed on the substrate. The substrate has a thickness of 1 micro metre or more and less than 1 mm. An optical thickness of the functional film with respect to light having a wavelength of 464 nm or more and 653 nm or less is less than a half of the...