ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,737, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Light emitter, light emitting device, optical device, and information processing apparatus" was invented by Satoshi Inada (Tokyo), Kenichi Ono (Tokyo), Takeshi Minamiru (Tokyo), Michiaki Murata (Tokyo) and Takafumi Higuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitter includes: a substrate; a driving section provided on the substrate; a light source that is provided on the substrate and is driven by the driving section; a cover section through which light emitted from the light source is transmitted and that is disposed in an optical axial di...