ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,874, issued on July 1, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).
"Mirror unit" was invented by Daiki Suzuki (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Tomoyuki Ide (Hamamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mirror unit includes a light scanning device and a package. The package has a main body portion provided with a light incident opening that opens on one side in a predetermined direction, a protrusion provided on a top surface of the main body portion, and a flat plate-shaped window member disposed on the top surface on an inward side of the protrusion and covering the light incident opening. An end surface of the protrusion...