ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,907, issued on April 14, was assigned to YITOA MICRO TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Kofu, Japan).
"Reflector scanner" was invented by Saburo Ito (Minami-Alps, Japan) and Yukio Nakazawa (Kofu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a reflector scanner including a frame, a mirror portion connected to inside of the frame via a first elastic member stretching along a second axis, a first and a second drive portions. The frame includes a frame-shaped portion and a set of bridge portions and is held turnably about a first axis. The first drive portion includes: first paired magnets disposed to be opposed to one another suc...