ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,811, issued on April 21, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Optical module" was invented by Kazuaki Suzuki (Ibaraki, Japan), Naoto Konegawa (Ibaraki, Japan), Tadao Okawa (Ibaraki, Japan) and Koji Ichinose (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical module includes: an electric circuit board E including an electric circuit provided on a light-permeable resin substrate 1; and an optical element 11 joined onto the electric circuit board E. The optical element 11 is joined to the electric circuit board E, with a light-emitting portion (or light-receiving portion) 11a of the optical element 11 facing an elec...