US Patent Issued to ALPS ALPINE on Sept. 29 for "Optical component integrally formed of transparent rectangular solid portion and lens, and optical module using the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,243, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Optical component integrally formed of transparent rectangular solid portion and lens, and optical module using the same" was invented by Yasuyuki Kondo (Niigata, Japan) and Junya Ogata (Niigata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical component includes a transparent rectangular solid portion having a height-to-width ratio greater than 1 in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the transparent rectangular solid portion, and a lens provided to the transparent rectangular solid portion at one or both of a light incident side and a light exit side of...