The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2022
Applicant:
Stmicroelectronics International N.v., Geneva, CH;
Inventors:
Nenad Nestorovic, Seattle, WA (US);
Jack Schmidt, San Marcos, CA (US);
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics International N.V., Geneva, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 26/08 (2006.01); G01S 7/481 (2006.01); G02B 26/10 (2006.01); G02B 27/09 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 26/0841 (2013.01); G01S 7/4815 (2013.01); G01S 7/4817 (2013.01); G02B 26/10 (2013.01); G02B 27/0955 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is an efficient optical scanning system takes the output of a multi-laser bar emitter with high divergence and delivers a combined beam of long vertical stripes of optical power that have a nearly top hat distribution along a vertical scanning axis and a narrow width along a horizontal scanning axis. This line footprint of the combined beam is scanned by a mirror onto a scene for use as ranging light in a distance measurement system.