ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,173, issued on June 17.
"Resolve path optical sampling architectures" was invented by Mark Alan Arbore (Los Altos, Calif.), Matthew A. Terrel (Campbell, Calif.) and Jason Pelc (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described here are optical sampling architectures and methods for operation thereof. An optical sampling architecture can be capable of emitting a launch sheet light beam towards a launch region and receiving a detection sheet light beam from a detection region. The launch region can have one dimension that is elongated relative to another dimension. The detection region can also have one dimension elongated rel...