ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,060, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Magnolia White Corp. (Tokyo).
"Detection device with light directivity" was invented by Kaoru Ito (Tokyo), Akihiko Fujisawa (Tokyo) and Daichi Abe (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection device includes: a planar detection device including photodetection elements; point light sources provided correspondingly to the photodetection elements; a light directivity control element disposed between the point light sources and the photodetection elements; and a detection circuit electrically coupled to the photodetection elements. Each point light source corresponds to at least one of the pho...