US Patent Issued to LASERTEC on May 12 for "Illumination apparatus and illumination method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,381, issued on May 12, was assigned to LASERTEC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Illumination apparatus and illumination method" was invented by Keitaro Hayashida (Yokohama, Japan), Shinji Tanaka (Yokohama, Japan), Masaki Koichi (Yokohama, Japan) and Haruhiko Kusunose (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an illumination apparatus and an illumination method capable of uniformly illuminating a visual field region detected by a detector. The present disclosure provides an illumination apparatus including: a drive unit configured to drive an optical member such that illumination light scans, in one direction, a visual fie...