US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Sept. 16 for "Scanner laser optics for LIDAR" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,802, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Scanner laser optics for LIDAR" was invented by Nenad Nestorovic (Seattle) and Jack Schmidt (San Marcos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an efficient optical scanning system takes the output of a multi-laser bar emitter with high divergence and delivers a combined beam of long vertical stripes of optical power that have a nearly top hat distribution along a vertical scanning axis and a narrow width along a horizontal scanning axis. This line footprint of the combined beam is scanned by a mirror onto a scene for use as ...