US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on Feb. 3 for "Coherent lidar imaging system" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,026, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Coherent lidar imaging system" was invented by Laurent Frey (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coherent LIDAR imaging system includes a laser source; an optical splitter/recombiner designed to split the laser radiation into a reference beam and into an object beam and to superpose the reference beam on a reflected object beam reflected by the scene; and an optical imager creating an image of the scene on a detector. The detector includes an array of pixels designed for detecting the reflected object beam and ...