US Patent Issued to Lumentum Operations on Aug. 25 for "Multi-bounce optical beam steering" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,128, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Lumentum Operations LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-bounce optical beam steering" was invented by Fredrik Sy (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a beam steering system includes a beam steering element configured to steer an optical beam having a beam waist, and an optical system configured to return the optical beam to the beam steering element to provide multiple bounces of the optical beam on the beam steering element. The beam waist of the optical beam may be maintained from inputting the optical beam to the beam steering element to outputting the optical beam from...