ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,422, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Exciting Technology LLC (Dayton, Ohio).
"System, method, and apparatus to steer an electromagnetic beam utilizing staged 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 for steering an electromagnetic (EM) beam includes a first continuous steering layer configured to steer an incident beam from an EM source to a first selected angle, and incident on a second continuous steering layer, and the second continuous steering layer configured to further steer the incident beam to a target steering angle value."
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