US Patent Issued on July 21 for "Silicon photonics lens assisted beam steering emitter pixel array and photo-acoustic imaging pixel array devices" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,677, issued on July 21.

"Silicon photonics lens assisted beam steering emitter pixel array and photo-acoustic imaging pixel array devices" was invented by Guomin Yu (Glendora, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A silicon photonics integrated beam steering device includes a light source operably coupled to a light dispenser, a chained optical switch array including a first optical switch having a first control circuit and a second optical switch having a second control circuit, and a pixel array having a first pixel and a second pixel, wherein the light dispenser is operably coupled to first optical switch, the first optical switch...