US Patent Issued to OMNITRON SENSORS on Sept. 22 for "Scanning mirror with dual axis gimbal structure" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,959, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to OMNITRON SENSORS INC. (Los Angeles, Iowa).

"Scanning mirror with dual axis gimbal structure" was invented by Trent Huang (Los Angeles), Jia Li (Los Angeles), Curtis Ray (Los Angeles) and Jianing Zhao (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual axis MEMS mirror assembly is disclosed. The assembly has a mirror and two arms, each having a rotational degree of motion and a translational degree of freedom. Each arm is hingedly attached to opposite ends of the mirror. A first pair of actuators is coupled to opposite ends of the first arm. A second pair of actuators is coupled to opposite end...