US Patent Issued to Exciting Technology on Nov. 11 for "System, method and apparatus for non-mechanical optical and photonic beam steering" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,208, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Exciting Technology LLC (Dayton, Ohio).

"System, method and apparatus for non-mechanical optical and photonic beam steering" was invented by Abtin Ataei (Oakwood, Ohio) and Paul F. McManamon (Dayton, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a bulk steering crystal apparatus having a first lens face and a second concave face. The example bulk steering crystal apparatus further includes a number of steering portions interposed between the first lens face and the second concave face, where each of the steering portions includes a bulk substrate portion including an electro-op...