US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on March 11 for "Electron tube, electron tube module, and optical device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,159, issued on March 11, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Electron tube, electron tube module, and optical device" was invented by Rina Konno (Hamamatsu, Japan), Shunsuke Kobayashi (Hamamatsu, Japan), Ginji Sugiura (Hamamatsu, Japan), Junichi Kondo (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Yasumasa Matsuoka (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The electron tube includes a vacuum container having a light transmitting substrate, a photocathode provided on an inner surface of the light transmitting substrate, an anode provided in the vacuum container, and a prism. The prism includes a bottom surface bonded to an o...