ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,798, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Magnolia White Corp. (Tokyo).
"Detection device" was invented by Makoto Hayashi (Tokyo), Hirofumi Kato (Tokyo), Yoshitaka Kojima (Tokyo), Yuta Haga (Tokyo), Ayato Kitamura (Tokyo) and Yoshiyuki Terada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a detection device includes: a light source configured to emit light to an object to be detected; a plurality of photodiodes arranged in a detection area; one or more detection circuits; and a coupling switching circuit configured to switch coupling of one or more of the photodiodes to one or more of the detection circuits. The coupling...