ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,426, issued on June 17, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Beam steering device" was invented by Hyungseok Bang (Seoul, South Korea), Seonghong Park (Seoul, South Korea), Sangchul Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Chaedeok Lee (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a beam steering device for steering a beam without a physical movement, the beam steering device comprising: a light source unit for irradiating parallel light; and a phase control array for controlling a reflection angle of the parallel light irradiated from the light source unit, wherein the phase control ar...