US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS, The University of Tokyo on Aug. 5 for "Optical modulator and optical modulator array" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,619, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan) and The University of Tokyo (Tokyo).

"Optical modulator and optical modulator array" was invented by Yoshiro Nomoto (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Takuo Tanemura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light modulator includes a base layer made of an insulating material having a transmitting property for object light, a conductive pattern layer made of a conductive material, including a plurality of pattern portions arranged periodically, and formed on the base layer, a modulation layer made of an electro-optic polymer, filling a space between the plurality of ...