ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,320, issued on March 25, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Imaging device" was invented by Yosuke Asai (Osaka, Japan), Kazuhiro Yamada (Osaka, Japan) and Hiroshi Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes: an area light source including an emission surface from which a sub-terahertz wave is emitted to a measurement target; and a detector including an image sensor that receives a reflected wave generated by the measurement target reflecting the sub-terahertz wave emitted from the emission surface. The area light source includes: at least one poi...