US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on July 8 for "Detection device and associated lidar system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,863, issued on July 8, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Detection device and associated lidar system" was invented by Laurent Frey (Grenoble, France), Anis Daami (Grenoble, France) and Stephane Fanget (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection device for a coherent lidar imaging system includes an integrated detector comprising a matrix array of pixels distributed over N columns and M rows and comprising an optical guide, called reference guide, configured so as to receive a laser beam, called reference beam, N optical guides, called column guides, coupled to th...