ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,817, issued on July 1, was assigned to Carl Zeiss AG (Oberkochen, Germany).
"Method for operating a LIDAR system" was invented by Frank Holler (Aalen, Germany), Thomas Wollweber (Eckartsberga, Germany), Jan Horn (Munich) and Peter Westphal (Jena, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a LIDAR system with at least one spectrally tunable light source emitting a light beam having a temporally varying frequency and a transparent protective shield, arranged in a light path of the light beam, protecting the LIDAR system against environmental pollution includes determining distance values of an object based on beat fre...