ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,778, issued on July 29, was assigned to Innoviz Technologies Ltd. (Rosh Ha'Ayin, Israel).

"Actuators and couplers for scanning mirrors" was invented by Michael Girgel (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel) and Sergey Dubrovskiy (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deflector unit for a light scanning system includes a mirror and at least one actuator arm. The actuator arm may include an anchor end and a coupler end. The at least one actuator arm may include an anchor end, a coupler end, and an actuator axis that extends from a first midpoint to a second midpoint, the first midpoint being a midpoint of an edge of the at least one...