ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,634, issued on June 30, was assigned to Fujikura Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method for manufacturing optical computation device, optical diffraction unit intermediate, and optical computation device" was invented by Hiroyuki Yamagishi (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for manufacturing an optical computing device using a container that includes n side walls WS1 to WSn and n bottom walls WB1 to WBn made of an optically-transparent material, where n is a natural number of not less than 2. The method includes: forming the container including an i-th cavity Ci, using at least an i-th bottom wall WBi and an i-th side w...