ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,709, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).
"Optical module" was invented by Tomoyuki Ide (Hamamatsu, Japan), Yuki Morinaga (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Mikito Takahashi (Hamamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical module includes: a mirror unit including a mirror device including a movable mirror portion provided with a coil; and a magnet unit including a first magnet, a second magnet, and a third magnet arranged along a first direction, and generating a magnetic field acting on the movable mirror portion. The mirror unit is disposed on the magnet unit in a second direction perpendic...