ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,902, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to LeddarTech Inc. (Quebec City).
"Beam-steering device particularly for LIDAR systems" was invented by Jean-Francois Bernier (Quebec, Canada), Pierre Olivier (Saint-Redempteur, Canada) and Dominique Bodziany (Quebec, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR apparatus for scanning a scene, comprising a transmitter stage, a receiver stage, a beam-steering engine configured to steer the light beam received from the transmitter stage in different directions to scan at least a portion of the scene, the beam-steering engine being responsive to steering commands to produce corresponding deflections...