US Patent Issued to Canon on Jan. 27 for "Method of reducing effect of stray light in optical sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,402, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method of reducing effect of stray light in optical sensor" was invented by Kazutaka Yaguchi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takuya Mukaibara (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical sensor includes a light emitting unit configured to emit and output light, a light receiving unit configured to receive light, a substrate on which the light emitting unit and the light receiving unit are mounted, an electrically conductive pattern including a land to be electrically connected to an electrode of the light emitting unit, a resist arranged as a layer above the electricall...