US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on March 25 for "Control device, optical filter system, and control method" (Japanese, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,275, issued on March 25, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Control device, optical filter system, and control method" was invented by Peter Seitz (Solothurn, Switzerland), Helmut Teichmann (Solothurn, Switzerland), Katsumi Shibayama (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Takashi Kasahara (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a control device for controlling a Fabry-Perot interference filter having a pair of mirror parts and a pair of driving electrodes. The control device includes: a first driving source that is controlled by using a current as a control parameter, and changes the distance between ...