ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,996, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Beam scanning device and scanning method thereof" was invented by Young Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junghyun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sunil Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minkyung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Byunggil Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beam scanning device includes a light modulation array and a processor. The light modulation array is configured to scan an external space based on phase modulating a plurality of light beams and, in a state in which the plurality of light beams are arra...