US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Austria on Oct. 7 for "Laser scanner using macro scanning structure and a MEMS scanning mirror" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,241, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Laser scanner using macro scanning structure and a MEMS scanning mirror" was invented by Andreas Hofbauer (Zwettl, Austria), Marcus Edward Hennecke (Graz, Austria), Boris Kirillov (Judendorf-StraBenge, Austria) and Rainer Reichert (Horn, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light scanning system includes a transmitter configured to transmit a transmit light beam along a transmission path; a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) mirror arranged on the transmission path and configured to oscillate about a first scanning axis to steer the tran...