US Patent Issued on Sept. 30 for "Optical beam scanning based on waveguide switching and position-to-angle conversion of a lens and applications" (Nevada Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,746, issued on Sept. 30.

"Optical beam scanning based on waveguide switching and position-to-angle conversion of a lens and applications" was invented by Xiaotian Steve Yao (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and devices for beam scanning using optical waveguides and an optical lens without moving parts for various applications including scanning light from a source to multiple waveguides or fibers with their terminals being in a 1D or 2D array for various applications including, e.g., ranging applications such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), time of flight (ToF), coherent detection with a frequency modulate...