US Patent Issued to KYOCERA, KYOCERA Document Solutions on July 28 for "Scanning device and distance measuring device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,387, issued on July 28, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan) and KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Scanning device and distance measuring device" was invented by Tatsuya Nagaya (Moriyama, Japan), Hiroki Okada (Machida, Japan), Daisuke Takahashi (Neyagawa, Japan) and Hideji Mizutani (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a scanning device including a first irradiation unit, a second irradiation unit, a scanning unit, a waveguide unit, and a detection unit. The first irradiation unit radiates a first electromagnetic wave for scanning an object of interest. The second irradiation unit radiates a ...