US Patent Issued to The Australian National University on July 14 for "Laser scanning system" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,291, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Australian National University (Acton, Australia).

"Laser scanning system" was invented by Yongxiao Li (Acton, Australia), Woei Ming Lee (Acton, Australia) and Yean Jin Lim (Acton, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of scanning a laser over a field of view, the method comprising: providing a laser to produce the laser beam; rasterizing the laser beam over a first sub-area of the field of view; deflecting the laser beam to a second sub-area of the field of view; and rasterizing the laser beam over the second sub-area of the field of view; and capturing image information produc...