US Patent Issued to Cepton Technologies on March 4 for "Scanning lidar with flood illumination for near-field detection" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,001, issued on March 4, was assigned to Cepton Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Scanning lidar with flood illumination for near-field detection" was invented by Mark Armstrong McCord (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LiDAR sensor includes a first lens, a first laser source configured to emit a plurality of first light pulses to be collimated by the first lens, a flood illumination source configured to emit a plurality of second light pulses as diverging light rays, a second lens configured to receive and focus (i) a portion of any one of the plurality of first light pulses and (ii) a portion of any one of the ...