ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,987, issued on April 22, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Optical scanner" was invented by Yuichi Toyota (Kariya, Japan), Taro Beppu (Kariya, Japan), Chihiro Moriguchi (Kariya, Japan) and Hikaru Sasaki (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical scanner includes a light source, an optical phased array, a monitoring light receiving unit, and a signal processing unit. The optical phased array implements scanning by a light beam by individually controlling phases of a plurality of branched lights into which light supplied from the light source is branched, using a scanning phase amount, and radiating light from ...