ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,165, issued on March 11, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Illumination device and image scanner" was invented by Taisuke Makita (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Kawano (Tokyo) and Shigeru Takushima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination device includes light sources and a light guide member. The light guide member includes an incidence part that guides light emitted from the light sources and entering through an incidence surface towards a center of the light guide member and a central part that has a scattering surface for emitting the guided light towards an illumination target body. The light sources include a ...