ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,516, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Optical apparatus" was invented by Atsushi Izawa (Tokyo) and Kazuya Nagashima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical apparatus includes: a housing; at least one component housed in the housing, the at least one component being configured to be energized and perform at least one of outputting light, receiving light, and changing a property of light; a plurality of external connection conductors configured to penetrate through the housing; and a flexible substrate housed in the housing, the flexible substrate including an insulation layer, a plurality ...