ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,086, issued on April 29, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Lighting device" was invented by Naoki Koito (Kanagawa, Japan), Yujiro Yanai (Kanagawa, Japan), Makoto Kamo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shinya Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device that can switch between intensity distributions of emitted light with a simple configuration. The lighting device includes a light source, a polarization controller, and a polarizing plate, in which the polarization controller switches light emitted from the light source between light components having two or more different polarization states to be incident int...