ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,216, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BEIJING VOYAGER TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Omni-view peripheral scanning system with integrated MEMS spiral scanner" was invented by Youmin Wang (Berkeley, Calif.) and Yue Lu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide a transmitter containing an omni-view peripheral scanning system, an omni-view peripheral scanning system, and an optical sensing method. The optical sensing system includes an optical source configured to sequentially emit optical signals. The optical sensing system further includes an omni-view peripheral scanning system con...