US Patent Issued to Microvision on Oct. 28 for "Scanning laser devices and methods with non-uniform optical expansion and pulse energy variation" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,353, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Microvision Inc. (Redmond, Wash.).

"Scanning laser devices and methods with non-uniform optical expansion and pulse energy variation" was invented by Henry J. Baron (Kirkland, Wash.), Alga Lloyd Nothern III (Seattle), Christopher Brian Adkins (Woodinville, Wash.) and Jonathan A. Morarity (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments described herein provide systems and methods that can improve performance in scanning laser devices. Specifically, the systems and methods utilize a non-uniform variation in optical expansion coupled with variation in the energy level of laser light pulses...