US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona on March 18 for "Optical phased arrays and spherical shift invariant sensors for use in advanced LIDAR systems" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,630, issued on March 18, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Optical phased arrays and spherical shift invariant sensors for use in advanced LIDAR systems" was invented by Yuzuru Takashima (Tucson, Ariz.) and Matthew Salem (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR system architecture which transmits light via an optical phased array and receives the reflected signal with a spherically shift invariant sensor. Phased arrays offer the ability to quickly scan a desired area by manipulating the electrical, or in this case-thermal, properties of an array of sensors....