ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,998, issued on March 4, was assigned to AGERPOINT INC (Durham, N.C.).

"Remote sensing device with duplex optical element and related methods" was invented by William Clifton (New Smyrna Beach, Fla.) and Neha Mohan Kadam (Edgewater, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote sensing device may include a mobile platform, and a LIDAR transceiver carried by the mobile platform. The LIDAR transceiver may further include an optical source, a detector, and a duplex optical element coupled downstream from the optical source and upstream from the detector. The duplex optical element may be configured to direct an output of the optical sourc...