US Patent Issued to Xerox on July 22 for "Focusing optics for use with semiconductor lasers for imaging applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,815, issued on July 22, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Focusing optics for use with semiconductor lasers for imaging applications" was invented by Joerg Martini (San Francisco), Zhihong Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Patrick Y. Maeda (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yu Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Focusing optics can include optical elements disposed and bonded in a linear arrangement (linear array) in at least two rows. A transparent bonding agent can secure alignment of the at least two rows of the optical elements. Scattering elements can also be disposed in the transparent polymer to cause light dif...