US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on May 12 for "Optical sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,009, issued on May 12, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical sensor" was invented by Kyohei Kakuyama (Osaka, Japan), Kotaro Hirose (Osaka, Japan) and Masahiro Adachi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical sensor includes a support layer, a thermoelectric-conversion material section disposed on the support layer and including strip-shaped p-type material layers configured to convert thermal energy into electric energy and strip-shaped n-type material lavers configured to convert thermal energy into electric energy, a heat sink, a light absorbing film, and an insulating film disposed...