US Patent Issued to ROBERT BOSCH on Aug. 11 for "Optical phase array, LIDAR system including an optical phase array, and method for processing an optical phase array" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,713, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Optical phase array, LIDAR system including an optical phase array, and method for processing an optical phase array" was invented by Alexander Huebel (Schorndorf, Germany), Julia Amthor (Reutlingen, Germany), Marc Schmid (Weissach, Germany) and Tobias Joachim Menold (Weil der Stadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical phase array. The optical phase array includes a sending and/or receiving surface with a regular arrangement of waveguiding antennas. Electromagnetic radiation is decoupleable from the antennas and/or coupleable into the anten...