US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Feb. 17 for "Doubly resonant micromechanical beam scanners" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,125, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Doubly resonant micromechanical beam scanners" was invented by Olav Solgaard (Stanford, Calif.) and Jennifer Solgaard (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for steering a light beam within a field of view with better uniformity and/or density than achievable using prior art beam scanners. Beam scanners in accordance with the present disclosure include an optical element that is operatively coupled with doubly resonant tethers that enable mo...