ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,362, issued on May 12, was assigned to OPTOELEC Co. LTD (Anyans-si, South Korea).

"Micro-optics system for non-rotational scanning comprising a plurality of micro-optical elements having different inclination patterns" was invented by Yong Woo Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jun Yuk Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A micro-optics system for non-rotational scanning includes a plurality of micro-optical elements having different inclination patterns. The different inclination patterns are implemented such that a plurality of light rays incident from a light source are increasingly refracted by 1 degree in ...