ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,863, issued on May 27, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Image sensor" was invented by Kosuke Watanabe (Kusatsu, Japan) and Yasuhito Uetsuji (Kusatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes an optical system including a liquid lens, a nonvolatile memory that stores property information about an amount of change in a refractive power of the liquid lens in response to an application voltage, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the liquid lens, and a body module. The optical system, the nonvolatile memory, and the temperature sensor are disconnectable from the body module that includes a ...