US Patent Issued to Fujikura on Sept. 15 for "Optical computing device and optical computing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,721, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Fujikura Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Optical computing device and optical computing method" was invented by Hiroyuki Kusaka (Tokyo), Masahiro Kashiwagi (Tokyo) and Yuichiro Kunai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical computing device includes: a light diffraction element group including light diffraction elements having an optical computing function, wherein the light diffraction element group passes light through the light diffraction elements in turn, the light passing through the light diffraction elements was either: reflected or scattered from a non-illuminant object located outside the op...