ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,783, issued on May 27, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Electromagnetic wave detection apparatus and information acquisition system" was invented by Eri Uchida (Yokohama, Japan) and Hiroki Okada (Machida, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromagnetic (EM) wave detection apparatus includes an irradiator that emits EM waves and a reflector that changes an irradiation position of the EM waves on an object by changing a direction of the emitted EM waves. A separation unit separates EM waves incident thereon to propagate the EM waves in first and second directions. A first detector detects the EM waves in the first...