ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,666, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical scanning device, driving method of optical scanning device, and image drawing system" was invented by Shinichiro Sonoda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hirotoshi Yoshizawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving controller derives a first integrated value by integrating a first phase delay time of an output signal of a first angle detection sensor with respect to a first signal to be referred to corresponding to a first driving signal, the number of times that is greater by a factor of a natural number than the number of times corresponding to a period...