US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Aug. 5 for "Optical sensor module and manufacturing method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,562, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical sensor module and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Yutaka Yoneda (Tokyo), Akihiro Matsusue (Tokyo), Kento Mori (Tokyo) and Tomohiro Maegawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical sensor module comprises a substrate, a photodetector which detects light and is fixed to the substrate and a lens holding member, to which a lens is fixed, which is fixed to the substrate at a position surrounding the photodetector, and the lens is fixed in the state in which an outer circumference of the lens is covered by a material itself of the lens h...