US Patent Issued to Magnolia White on Nov. 11 for "Optical element including light shielding regions and pinholes" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,149, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Magnolia White Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical element including light shielding regions and pinholes" was invented by Masakazu Gunji (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an optical device, a center position of a pinhole is disposed at a center position of a sensor region, in a first individual region disposed in a center region, of a plurality of first individual regions, and a distance in planar view between a center region of the sensor region and the pinhole in the first individual region far from the center region is longer than a distance in planar view between the center region of the sensor...