ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,147, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and processing unit for activating at least one drive unit of at least one deflection unit of a microscanner device" was invented by Andreas Petersen (Eningen, Germany), Frank Schatz (Kornwestheim, Germany), Hendrik Specht (Pliezhausen, Germany) and Thomas Kuenstle (Reutlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for activating a drive unit of a deflection unit of a two-dimensional microscanner device. First and second control signals for activating the drive unit of the deflection unit are initially generated using a processing unit. ...