US Patent Issued to DENSO on Dec. 2 for "Optical detector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,331, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Optical detector" was invented by Mitsuhiro Kiyono (Kariya, Japan), Teiyuu Kimura (Kariya, Japan), Noriyuki Ozaki (Kariya, Japan), Kenichi Yanai (Kariya, Japan), Shinji Kashiwada (Kariya, Japan), Fumiaki Mizuno (Kariya, Japan) and Kazuhisa Onda (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical detector is configured to project a projection beam toward a measurement area and detect a return beam from the measurement area. The optical detector includes: a projecting optical system that forms a projection optical axis to project the projection beam; a receiving o...