ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,596, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Continental Autonomous Mobility US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Scanning LADAR system with corrective optic" was invented by Patrick B. Gilliland (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Chunbai Wu (Camarillo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LADAR sensor includes a light emitter, a lens having areas of different refraction, a beam-steering device, and a light sensor. The beam-steering device is between the light emitter and the lens to direct light from the light emitter through the lens. The beam-steering device is designed to scan the aim of light from the light emitter to different ones of the a...