ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,734, issued on July 21, was assigned to TriLite Technologies GmbH (Vienna).
"Light projector module" was invented by John Nicholas Shepherd (Vienna), Zhe Chen (Vienna), Michael Schoeffmann (Baden, Austria), Louahab Noui (East Sussex, Great Britain) and Joerg Reitterer (Brunn am Gebirge, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light projector module comprises a base plate with two opposite sides both extending in a longitudinal and a transverse direction, a light source mounted on one side of the two opposite sides for transmitting a light beam in a transmission plane that is perpendicular to the two opposite sides and parallel to th...