ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,565, issued on May 6, was assigned to EYEWAY VISION LTD. (Or Yehuda, Israel).

"MEMS based light deflecting device and method" was invented by Shlomi Efrati (Mevasseret Zion, Israel), Arkady Bronfman (Beer-Sheva, Israel), Semion Kofman (Holon, Israel), Fares Marjieh (Jaffa-Nazareth, Israel), Yaron Zimmerman (Kiryat Tivon, Israel) and Boris Greenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments are directed to a system comprising a MEMS based actuator unit and a control electric circuit. The actuator unit comprising one or more MEMS actuators, each comprising a stator and a rotor and configured to define a payload ...