ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,528, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Analog Photonics LLC (Boston).
"Large scale steerable coherent optical switched arrays" was invented by Ehsan Shah Hosseini (Boston) and Michael Robert Watts (Hingham, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure describe large scale steerable optical switched arrays that may be fabricated on a common substrate including many thousands or more emitters that may be arranged in a curved pattern at the focal plane of a lens thereby allowing the directional control of emitted light and selective reception of reflected light suitable for use in imaging, ranging, and sensing...