US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on June 16 for "Spatial light modulation device, processing device, and position estimation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,101, issued on June 16, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Spatial light modulation device, processing device, and position estimation method" was invented by Koichi Sakai (Hamamatsu, Japan), Satoru Kobayashi (Hamamatsu, Japan), Kazuki Kawai (Hamamatsu, Japan), Takashi Sekine (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Yoshinori Kato (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a spatial light modulation device, a detection unit detects light modulated by a spatial light modulation unit. An estimation unit estimates an incident position of the light onto the spatial light modulation unit on the basis of a detection resul...