US Patent Issued to AdHawk Microsystems on Feb. 11 for "Light scanner having closed-loop control based on optical feedback" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,103, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to AdHawk Microsystems Inc. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Light scanner having closed-loop control based on optical feedback" was invented by Duncan Wesley Strathearn (Waterloo, Canada), Kenneth McCoubrey (Kitcherner, Canada), Nino Zahirovic (Waterloo, Canada), Fan Yang (London, Canada) and Niladri Sarkar (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for monitoring the instantaneous position of a scanning element of a light scanner via an optical-feedback signal are disclosed, where the optical-feedback signal is a portion of a light signal being steered in a two-dimensional pattern ...