US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Jan. 20 for "Beam-steering system based on a MEMS-actuated vertical-coupler array" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,262, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California.

"Beam-steering system based on a MEMS-actuated vertical-coupler array" was invented by Xiaosheng Zhang (Berkeley, Calif.), Ming Chiang A Wu (Moraga, Calif.), Andrew S Michaels (Berkeley, Calif.) and Johannes Henriksson (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated-optics MEMS-actuated beam-steering system is disclosed, wherein the beam-steering system includes a lens and a programmable vertical coupler array having a switching network and an array of vertical couplers, where the switching network can energize of the vertical couplers...