ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,276, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).
"Mirror unit" was invented by Daiki Suzuki (Hamamatsu, Japan), Tomoyuki Ide (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Yuki Morinaga (Hamamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mirror unit includes an optical scanning device, a frame member, and a window member. The frame member includes first and second wall portions facing each other in an X-axis direction. The first wall portion is higher than the second wall portion. The window member is disposed on a top surface of the first wall portion and a top surface of the second wall portion and is inclined with respect...