ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,018, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Optical module" was invented by Shigeru Mieda (Tokyo) and Isao Tomita (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an optical module that can further be reduced in size, an optical module according to the present invention includes a casing, a light source that is mounted on a first surface of the casing and outputs light, a first reflection means that is arranged at a position facing the light source and reflects the light from the light source to a direction vertical to the first surface, a second reflection means that reflects the light from the first reflection means...