US Patent Issued to Ushio Denki on Sept. 1 for "Optical heating device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,424, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Ushio Denki K.K. (Tokyo).

"Optical heating device" was invented by Shinji Taniguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical heating device includes a heating light source unit having a plurality of planar light source areas in each of which a light source is arranged, and a controller configured to control light output of the light source. The controller includes a storage section that stores temperature distribution characteristic information describing a relation between a relative ratio of the light output of each light source and temperature distribution on a main surface of a tabu...