ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,672, issued on June 23, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Light transmissive optical element module and electronic instrument" was invented by Norikazu Kadotani (Azumino, Japan), Yuki Naito (Matsumoto, Japan), Tomoaki Miyashita (Shimosuwa-machi, Japan) and Masanobu Nakanishi (Azumino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light transmissive optical element module includes an optical device having a light transmissive optical element that causes light incident thereon to exit and a heat transfer surface via which heat of the light transmissive optical element is transferred, a heat diffuser that includes a contact section i...