ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,495, issued on May 13, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Optical scanning apparatus" was invented by Hidemasa Suzuki (Kariya, Japan) and Kunihiko Hayashi (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an optical scanning apparatus, a light-emitting unit emits light waves. A light-receiving unit receives reflected light of the light waves. A transmissive member transmits the light waves and the reflected light of the light waves. A reflection mirror is arranged further toward the light-emitting unit side and light-receiving unit side than the transmissive member is, includes a reflection surface that rotates, and deflect...