ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,761, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Voyant Photonics Inc. (New York).
"Emitter array" was invented by Sajan Shrestha (New York), Christopher T. Phare (New York) and Lawrence Dah Ching Tzuang (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an optical emitter device, when point emitters are placed on the focal plane of a lens system, each individual point emitter will point to a specific free space angle depending on the position of the point emitter relative to the longitudinal central axis of the lens system. The plurality of point emitters are arranged in an array comprising a plurality of rows of point emitters and a plurality of c...