ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,206, issued on May 12, was assigned to SUMIDA Corp. (Japan) and Kyoto University (Japan).
"Digitizing device and digitizing method" was invented by Yoshiharu Yoshii (Miyagi, Japan), Tsunaki Kaneko (Miyagi, Japan), Norikazu Mizuochi (Kyoto, Japan) and Izuru Ohki (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physical field generator generates a magnetic field or an electric field corresponding to an input signal. An optical quantum sensor part generates light corresponding to the magnetic field or the electric field by a sensing member and converts the light into an electrical signal as a sensor signal by a photoelectric element. An an...