US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 23 for "Optical phased array device and lidar device including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,689, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Optical phased array device and lidar device including the same" was invented by Hyunil Byun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Woosung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kyunghyun Son (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical phased array device may include a substrate, a light distribution unit configured to distribute input light along a plurality of paths as distributed light, a light modulator configured to modulate a phase of distributed light to establish phase-modulated light, an antenna configured to emit the phase-mod...