ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,273, 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: "In a mirror unit, a first wall portion is higher than a second wall portion. A 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 to a mirror surface. When any one of first to fourth wall portions is set as a first reference wall portion, in a cross-section perpendicular to the first reference wall port...