ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,377, issued on July 15, was assigned to TriLite Technologies GmbH (Vienna).
"Light projector module" was invented by Louahab Noui (East Sussex, Great Britain) and Joerg Reitterer (Brunn am Gebirge, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light projector module comprises a support, a light source for emitting in a beam path a light beam, a micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) mirror for deflecting the emitted light beam, a waveguide having an in-coupling area for receiving the deflected light beam and an out-coupling area for projecting the deflected light beam with enlarged cross section, and a static mirror in the beam path from ...