ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,866, issued on July 29, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Beam deflection system" was invented by Toshihiro Oda (Kariya, Japan), Yuki Kamata (Kariya, Japan) and Koichi Oyama (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beam deflection system includes 2M laser light sources configured to emit laser lights, each laser light source being configured to switch two different center wavelengths to each other. The 2M laser light sources are divided into two sets of M types. The laser lights emitted from the two sets of M types of laser light sources are combined and input to a beam deflector. When (i) N is defined as an intege...