ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,668, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Light scanning device" was invented by Nobuya Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light scanning device includes a light source that emits laser light, a mirror device that includes a movable mirror swinging about at least one axis and directionally changes the laser light emitted from the light source by reflecting the laser light using the movable mirror, and a condensing optical system that condenses the laser light directionally changed by the mirror device. The condensing optical system includes a half-silvered mirror that has a concave surfa...