US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on April 14 for "Light receiving element, and rotation detector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,615, issued on April 14, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Light receiving element, and rotation detector" was invented by Kenji Furumai (Osaka, Japan) and Akio Agehara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a light receiving element and a rotation detector capable of enhancing a degree of freedom in designing an increment light receiver. Light receiving element includes a plurality of first absolute light receivers that are arranged on a first circumference having a first radius and output detection signals according to the absolute method, and a plurality of lig...