ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,528, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Light emitting device, photo-detection system, and vehicle" was invented by Kazuya Hisada (Nara, Japan), Yasuhisa Inada (Osaka, Japan) and Yumiko Kato (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting device includes a light source that emits an optical beam in response to a control signal, an optical deflector that changes a direction of the optical beam in response to a driving voltage, and a control circuit that controls a timing of emission of the optical beam and the direction of the optical beam. The optica...