US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, MIRISE Technologies on April 8 for "Optical scanner having optical phased array, and computer program product for controlling optical phased array" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,095, issued on April 8, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).

"Optical scanner having optical phased array, and computer program product for controlling optical phased array" was invented by Hikaru Sasaki (Nisshin, Japan), Koichi Oyama (Nisshin, Japan) and Taro Beppu (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical scanner includes a substrate, an optical phased array, a shape sensor, a deviation calculation unit, and a control unit. The optical phased array includes an antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements. The deviation...