ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,264, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).
"Optical deflection device" was invented by Takashi Sakamoto (Tokyo), Yuichi Akage (Tokyo), Sohan Kawamura (Tokyo), Masahiro Ueno (Tokyo) and Soichi Oka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical deflection apparatus is provided with an optical deflection element and a compensating optical element. The optical deflection element deflects incident light in a first direction (a voltage application direction) in which a voltage is applied (one-dimensional scan). The compensating optical element is an element which has an incidence surface and an ...