US Patent Issued to DENSO on June 17 for "Optical scanner" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,536, issued on June 17, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Optical scanner" was invented by Chihiro Moriguchi (Kariya, Japan), Yuichi Toyota (Kariya, Japan), Taro Beppu (Kariya, Japan) and Hikaru Sasaki (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical scanner includes a light receiving unit, a reference light irradiating unit, and a light-receiving-side correcting unit. The light receiving unit includes an optical phased array that implements scanning by a light beam by individually controlling phases of a plurality of branched lights using a scanning phase amount. The reference light irradiating unit generates ref...