US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION on May 5 for "Optical device and image reading device with a plurality of lenses and light-blocking body" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,013, issued on May 5, was assigned to FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP. (Tokyo).

"Optical device and image reading device with a plurality of lenses and light-blocking body" was invented by Masaki Hachisuga (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes: a lens body including plural lenses arranged such that optical axes of the plural lenses extend along each other; and a light-blocking body disposed on a light incident side of the lens body and including light-transmitting portions that transmit light and light-blocking portions that block light, the light-transmitting portions and the light-blocking porti...