ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,073, issued on July 7, was assigned to Magnolia White Corp. (Tokyo).

"Detection device using threshold" was invented by Akihiko Fujisawa (Tokyo), Kaoru Ito (Tokyo) and Daichi Abe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection device includes a planar detection device comprising a plurality of photodetection elements arranged in a planar configuration, a light source device disposed so as to face the planar detection device, and a light-transmitting mounting substrate that is disposed between the planar detection device and the light source device and configured to mount a plurality of objects to be detected."

The patent was filed ...