US Patent Issued to Exciting Technology on April 14 for "System, method and apparatus for non-mechanical optical and photonic beam steering" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,950, issued on April 14, was assigned to Exciting Technology LLC (Dayton, Ohio).

"System, method and apparatus for non-mechanical optical and photonic beam steering" was invented by Paul F. McManamon (Dayton, Ohio) and Abtin Ataei (Oakwood, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a high-side electrode layer having a first number of electrical members alternated with, and electrically coupled to adjacent ones of a second number of electrical members, where either the first number of electrical members or the second number of electrical members are discrete electrodes, and the other one of the first or second nu...