US Patent Issued to DENSO on Sept. 23 for "Optical detector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,741, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Optical detector" was invented by Mitsuhiro Kiyono (Kariya, Japan), Kenichi Yanai (Kariya, Japan), Teiyuu Kimura (Kariya, Japan), Noriyuki Ozaki (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 includes a light emitter having a light emitting window extended in an extension direction to emit a projection beam from the light emitting window toward a measurement area and to detect a return beam from the measurement area. The optical detector includes...