US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Feb. 3 for "Nonlinear consecutive scanning projector" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,092, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Nonlinear consecutive scanning projector" was invented by Brian Wheelwright (Sammamish, Wash.), Daniel Guenther Greif (Redmond, Wash.) and Jacques Gollier (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanning projector is disclosed, including a light engine for providing a light beam, a beam scanner for scanning the light beam about two axes, and a controller operably coupled to the light engine and the beam scanner and configured to cause the beam scanner to non-linearly scan the light beam about the first and second axes within the fi...