ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,838, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Measuring device, measuring method, and electronic device" was invented by Hiroshi Morita (Tokyo), Yusuke Oyama (Tokyo), Kazuaki Toba (Tokyo) and Masanari Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an apparatus to properly measure the bending amount of an optical waveguide routed in an electronic device or the like. An optical signal outputted with a second wavelength from the optical waveguide is received by a light receiving unit. In this case, the optical waveguide allows propagation only in a basic mode at a first wavelength and the second waveleng...