ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,093, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Light scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yu Miyajima (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an apparatus including: an element in which a fine structure changing a polarization state of a light flux from a light source is formed on at least one of an incident surface or an exit surface thereof; a deflecting unit deflecting light flux that has passed through optical element to scan a scanned surface in a main scanning direction; and an optical system guiding light flux deflected by deflecting unit to scanned surface, wherein f...