US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on June 3 for "Turning grating device for emission of arbitrary optical beam profiles from waveguides into two-dimensional space" (Arizona, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,011, issued on June 3, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Turning grating device for emission of arbitrary optical beam profiles from waveguides into two-dimensional space" was invented by Matthew Wade Puckett (Phoenix), Karl D. Nelson (Plymouth, Minn.), Chad Fertig (Bloomington, Minn.), Chad Hoyt (Roseville, Minn.) and Neil A. Krueger (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turning grating coupler device comprises a waveguide core layer including a grating structure and an output slab adjoined with the grating structure. The grating structure comprises an array of sub-waveguides substantially...