ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,067, issued on May 27, was assigned to Liturex (Guangzhou) Co. Ltd. (Guangzhou, China).
"Apparatus for projecting linear laser beams" was invented by Yunpeng Song (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, described herein is an apparatus for projecting linear illumination fanned out along the slow axis of a laser source array. In addition to the laser source array, the apparatus can include a number of fast axis collimators (FACs) to collimate the laser beams from the laser source array along the fast axis, a cylinder lens array for converting the collimated laser beams to parallel laser beams, and a prism ...