ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,199, issued on March 17, was assigned to Magnolia White Corp. (Tokyo).
"Detection device" was invented by Tomoyuki Ishihara (Tokyo), Tomoya Tezen (Tokyo), Daisuke Hamano (Tokyo), Naoyuki Asano (Tokyo), Kaoru Ito (Tokyo) and Akihiko Fujisawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a detection device includes: a planar detection device including photodetection elements arranged in a planar configuration; a light-transmitting placement substrate to place thereon objects to be detected; and light sources provided correspondingly to the photodetection elements. The planar detection device, the placement substrate, a...