ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,638, issued on May 13, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Drive device" was invented by Hiroto Nakamura (Tachikawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive device includes: a drive signal generator configured to generate a pair of drive signals, a pair of buffer circuits, a pair of switching elements configured to repeatedly turn on and off the pair of drive signals, a first radiation material that has a longitudinal axis and that is arranged to face one of the pair of switching elements, a second radiation material that has a longitudinal axis and that is arranged to face an other one of the pair of switching elements, a f...