ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,855, issued on May 27, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Systems and methods to separate scanning mirror input and output light" was invented by Daniel Adema (Kitchener, Canada) and Ian Andrews (Kitchener, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of separating the input light path from the output light path of a scanning mirror in a laser projector system while keeping the overall footprint of the laser projector system to a minimum. The system includes a scanning mirror, an optical engine, and an input/output (I/O) separator disposed between the optical engine and the scanning mirror to direct lig...