ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,370, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Light receiving device and communication device" was invented by Toshiki Imamura (Tokyo), Koya Takata (Tokyo) and Fujio Okumura (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light receiving device that includes a lens that collects a spatial light signal, a sensor array including a plurality of light receivers that receives the spatial light signal collected by the lens, and a reception unit that integrates an electric signal derived from the spatial light signal received by each of the plurality of light receivers and selects a light receiver that receives the spatial l...