US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on July 22 for "Variable-phase device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,770, issued on July 22, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Variable-phase device" was invented by Soh Uenoyama (Hamamatsu, Japan), Yoshitaka Kurosaka (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Kazuyoshi Hirose (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiment relates to a variable-phase device including a new device structure that can solve various problems. The variable-phase device includes M pixels (where M is an integer of 2 or more) arrayed one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally, the M pixels each emitting light or modulating light. The array pitch of the M pixels is less than the wavelength of incid...