US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Feb. 17 for "Method of molding optical element and mold for molding optical element" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,698, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of molding optical element and mold for molding optical element" was invented by Kenji Kikuchi (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of molding an optical element. The method includes: inserting a neck portion provided in each of an upper mold and a lower mold into a hole portion provided in a side surface mold; replacing an atmosphere in the hole portion of the side surface mold with an inert gas through a groove communicating between either an upper end surface or a lower end surface of the side surface mold and the hole portion of the...