ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,232, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Light-emitting device, optical device, measurement device, and information processing apparatus" was invented by Daisuke Iguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhiro Sakai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takeshi Minamiru (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting device includes a laser element array having a quadrangular planar shape, a pair of capacitors that supply an electric current for light emission of the laser element array, and a driving unit that drives the laser element array by turning on and off the electric current for light emission...