US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on May 13 for "Optical device, scanning optical device, and image forming device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,498, issued on May 13, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Optical device, scanning optical device, and image forming device" was invented by Akira Taniyama (Hino, Japan), Ryo Hasegawa (Hachioji, Japan) and Takahiro Matsuo (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes: an optical element having a first surface and a second surface; a first seat surface member that abuts on the first surface of the optical element; a first pressing member that abuts on the second surface of the optical element at a position facing the first seat surface member via the optical element, and press the optical elemen...