ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,276, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical sensor chip, optical sensor system, and measurement method" was invented by Akihiro Fujie (Tokyo), Hiroshi Otsuka (Tokyo), Masayuki Baba (Tokyo), Toshiyuki Ando (Tokyo), Hitomi Ono (Tokyo) and Yuta Takemoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical sensor chip includes a spot-size conversion unit to receive a first optical signal from outside, a changer unit to change the first optical signal depending on a state of a specimen, a spot-size conversion unit to output the first optical signal to the outside, a spot-size conversion unit to receive a ...