US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA on June 9 for "Mems-based hybrid beam steering device for lidar" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,497, issued on June 9, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Mems-based hybrid beam steering device for lidar" was invented by Yuzuru Takashima (Tucson, Ariz.), Brandon Hellman (Tucson, Ariz.), Joshua Rodriguez (Tucson, Ariz.) and Youngsik Kim (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LiDAR system that uses a MEMS-based scanning mirror that reflects pulsed light generated by a laser. The scanning mirror reflects the light through a lens system which collimates the light and allows its transmission to a digital micromirror device that steers the light to different locati...