US Patent Issued to FUJIKURA on March 17 for "Light diffraction element unit and optical computation device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,516, issued on March 17, was assigned to FUJIKURA LTD. (Tokyo).

"Light diffraction element unit and optical computation device" was invented by Hiroyuki Kusaka (Tokyo) and Masahiro Kashiwagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light diffraction element unit includes a base material including a light-transmissive and flexible layer member, a light diffraction structure including microcells and disposed on a portion of a main surface of the base material, and a holding part holding the base material and including a layer member or a plate member having an opening that penetrates through a pair of main surfaces of the layer member ...