US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on May 13 for "Optical device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,132, issued on May 13, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Optical device" was invented by Tomofumi Suzuki (Hamamatsu, Japan), Kyosuke Kotani (Hamamatsu, Japan), Tatsuya Sugimoto (Hamamatsu, Japan), Yutaka Kuramoto (Hamamatsu, Japan), Katsumi Shibayama (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Noburo Hosokawa (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an optical device, a base and a movable unit are constituted by a semiconductor substrate including a first semiconductor layer, an insulating layer, and a second semiconductor layer in this order from one side in a predetermined direction. The base is constituted by the...