ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,496, issued on May 13, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing optical scanning system, method for manufacturing optical scanning device, and data acquisition method" was invented by Daiki Suzuki (Hamamatsu, Japan), Yoshihisa Warashina (Hamamatsu, Japan), Ryusuke Kitaura (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Hidetaka Kawaoka (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a light scanning system includes a process of assembling a plurality of device structures, each of device structures including a mirror device and a magnet, a process of acquiring, for each of device struct...