US Patent Issued to Torchlight Solutions on June 3 for "Free-space beam steering systems, devices, and methods" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,077, issued on June 3, was assigned to Torchlight Solutions LLC (Arlington, Mass.).

"Free-space beam steering systems, devices, and methods" was invented by Jason W. Sickler (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and systems having a vertical waveguide array are provided having a plurality of vertical waveguides disposed on a support substrate in an array, where each vertical waveguide further includes a reflective layer positioned to reflect impinging light toward the support substrate, a core region extending from the reflective layer to the support substrate, the core region further comprising, a first contact reg...