ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,961, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to OQMENTED GMBH (Itzehoe, Germany).

"Projection system for projecting Lissajous figures and microscanner with coupled oscillators" was invented by Leon Pohl (Schwentinental, Germany), Ulrich Hofmann (Itzehoe, Germany), Thomas Von Wantoch (Kiel, Germany), Peter Blicharski (Essen, Germany), Oleg Petrak (Itzehoe, Germany) and Christian Janicke (Kiel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projection system for projecting Lissajous figures on an observation field includes a microscanner. This has a deflection unit having a deflection element for deflecting an incident electromagnetic beam, a supp...